IN a parallel universe somewhere, if such things exist, the Liverpool –Manchester United league game in October turned out a little bit differently. The first fifty-odd minutes were exactly the same; the rest of the game, to all but a couple of people, looked to have carried on exactly the same too.  Evra still had that little tantrum about losing […]

A COUPLE of weeks ago I started something I’d loosely titled “An open letter to Piara Powar, Lord Ouseley and the rest of them.” In the first paragraph it asked: “Are you all the same you anti-discrimination campaigners?” I didn’t finish it; it was one of those pieces that have no end in sight because there’s so much to say. […]

A COUPLE of weeks ago I started something I’d loosely titled “An open letter to Piara Powar, Lord Ouseley and the rest of them.” In the first paragraph it asked: “Are you all the same you anti-discrimination campaigners?” I didn’t finish it; it was one of those pieces that have no end in sight because there’s so much to say. […]

A LETTER from Alex Ferguson to Manchester United supporters urging they behave at Anfield on Saturday has nothing to do with the recent Patrice Evra incident last October. Suggestions from some that Liverpool should now follow suit are either ill-advised, lazy or an attempt to stir up a bit more trouble. When Manchester United played at Anfield last season in […]

A LETTER from Alex Ferguson to Manchester United supporters urging they behave at Anfield on Saturday has nothing to do with the recent Patrice Evra incident last October. Suggestions from some that Liverpool should now follow suit are either ill-advised, lazy or an attempt to stir up a bit more trouble. When Manchester United played at Anfield last season in […]

LIVERPOOL are at The Reebok Stadium to take on Bolton Wanderers, a side currently second-from bottom in the table, for tonight’s early-evening kick-off. The games comes ahead of a double-header of cup matches for the Reds in the course of the next week. Stewart Downing is on the bench for this one, along with Dirk Kuyt, Jamie Carragher and Sebastian […]

Barclays Premier League – January 14 2012 Liverpool v Stoke City THE REDS start today’s match against Stoke with a number of changes from the side that beat Manchester City 1-0 in midweek. Daniel Agger is injured and missing from the squad; Andy Carroll has dropped to the bench. Alongside Carroll on the bench are Craig Bellamy and Jonjo Shelvey, […]

Barclays Premier League – January 14 2012 Liverpool v Stoke City Liverpool welcome Stoke City to Anfield for a less rare than usual 3pm Saturday kick-off. Last time the two sides met was in the League Cup at Stoke’s place where Luis Suárez scored twice as The Reds came back from behind to win 2-1 The little Uruguayan isn’t available […]

DIETMAR HAMANN, the “World’s first German Scouser”, releases his book, “The Didi Man – My Love Affair with Liverpoool” on February 2nd and it promises to be an engaging – and funny – read. Didi was signed by Kenny Dalglish from Bayern Munich in 1998 – but that was when Kenny was manager of Newcastle. A year later Gerard Houllier […]

THE NEWS that Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard had signed an extension to his contract that will likely take him to the end of his playing days couldn’t have come at a better time for the club. Having suffered from injuries for pretty much the whole of 2011 Gerrard has come back into the side and made the difference that few […]