And Could He Play

When the 2020-2021 Premier League season was reaching its conclusion, everyone associated with Liverpool Football Club was desperate for the Reds to finish in the top four. This is a team that belongs in the Champions League and deserves European football, of that there ...Read More

In the end, then, football didn’t come home. The European Championship was a genuine pleasure to watch, if for no other reason than I had no skin in the game and could watch matches for the joy of watching football rather than being emotionally ...Read More

Let me absolutely clear: I never want Everton Football Club to win so much as a raffle and that won’t change now that Rafael Benitez has taken over as the club’s manager. In a perfect world, he’ll end up getting them relegated, which will ...Read More

I was waiting for the announcement of Rafael Benitez as Everton manager before writing this week’s article, determined to make the point that, as far as I’m concerned, the Spaniard has earned the right to do what he wants with his career. That particular ...Read More

A quick search of Twitter in the wake of Jordan Henderson’s penalty miss for England last week would have shown that there are still plenty of people that don’t rate the former Sunderland player. Thankfully, for the most part, few of them would be ...Read More

It would be decidedly easy to look back at Liverpool’s season as something of a failure, based on the fact that we had hoped to challenge for the title once again. Having taken Manchester City to the wire in 2018-2019 then overtaken them in ...Read More

It shows the level that Liverpool have reached in recent years that this season feels like a huge disappointment. Given that Manchester City are currently just two points better off than they were after thirty-seven games last time out, it certainly seems like a ...Read More