Archive for the ‘Liverpool’ Category

Competition Time

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Due to unforeseen circumstances, as detailed on my previous post, I am unable to attend Sunday afternoon’s Anfield fixture between Liverpool and Chelsea. It is only 1 ticket, but I have decided to give it away as a competition prize. To enter, you will need to answer the question below, and ...

Red Letter Days on Gwladys Street

Saturday, October 16th, 2010

This article was originally published at live4Liverpool on Friday October 15, 2010. During a week which tested the emotions and patience of all Liverpool fans, I looked back on some memorable victories at Goodison Park ahead of tomorrow’s Merseyside Derby. As I mentioned precisely a week ago, unless you are running ...

Dear Messrs Hicks & Gillett

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

- Dear Messrs Hicks & Gillett Words fail me at this very special moment for Liverpool Football Club. It says everything about your tenure, that your exit is the most celebrated moment of your time at the club. In January 2007, you sat in the famous trophy room at Anfield, and you made ...

From Massachusetts to Merseyside

Saturday, October 9th, 2010

This article was originally published at live4Liverpool on Friday October 8, 2010, and features an interview that I was fortunate enough to conduct with a lifelong supporter of the Boston Red Sox. Baseball may well be 'America's Game', but it certainly does not enjoy the same popularity in the UK as ...

Another 48 Hours: No Laughing Matter at Liverpool

Saturday, October 9th, 2010

This article was originally published at live4Liverpool on Thursday October 7, 2010, and considered the potential outcomes surrounding the prospective sale of Liverpool Football Club to New England Sports Ventures. If your subject matter is Liverpool Football Club, the task of being a writer has been no easy task in recent ...

There Are More Questions Than Answers

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

There are, as so often in recent times, more questions than answers when it comes to the subject of Liverpool Football Club this morning. The question that I have heard most often is whether the club can be sold to New England Sports Ventures whilst George Gillett and Tom Hicks ...

Reds Face Defining Moment

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

The phrase ‘defining moment’ is a well worn cliché in sports journalism. More often than not, it will refer to a David to Goliath scenario observing a rise from mediocrity to champion. However, there are also cases where that moment signifies a decline in fortune. That key instant tends to happen ...

Oval or Small? This Weekend Is Balls!

Friday, October 1st, 2010

This is simply another of those weekends which represents a small utopia for a man whose personal, and sometimes professional, life revolves around sport. It has always been so for me, hardly surprising having growing up in a professional sporting family. The next few days will see my focus fixed firmly at ...

This IS Anfield

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

This article was originally published at live4Liverpool on Wednesday 29 September, 2010. This is Anfield, and how they knew it, in every European language. Visiting teams and supporters arrived at Anfield both in fear and awe, trepidation at the thought of taking on the Mighty Liverpool on their home patch, and wonder at ...

He Made Us Proud to Wear The Red

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

This article was originally published at live4Liverpool on Wednesday 29 September, 2010. I had rarely been exposed to seeing grown men cry at so young an age, so it was immediately apparent on January 29, 1981, that something was amiss. People were weeping, and, looking back, there was more than a ...