Analysis Archive

On the one hand, the idea of any club being in crisis in the middle of a World Cup seems utterly ludicrous. A wealth of players have disappeared over to Qatar to help to sports-wash the country’s appalling human rights record and atrocious approach ...Read More

I had been planning to write this article for some time. It had been percolating at the back of my brain for weeks, giving me an opportunity to offer a more long-form version of thoughts that I had been tweeting from time to time. ...Read More

Liverpool’s performance against Tottenham Hotspur yesterday afternoon was, in many ways, the perfect summary of our season so far. For periods of the game, we were much the better team. We started brilliantly, putting Spurs on the back foot and dominating them until we ...Read More

“Always the victims, it’s never your fault.” That is a chant that Liverpool supporters are having to listen to from opposition fans virtually every single match week. With a few exceptions, it is something that visiting supporters are singing with increasing gusto, feeling as ...Read More

To many people, the idea of poor refereeing involves in the person in the middle getting big calls wrong. That isn’t always the case, though, as demonstrated by Anthony Taylor yesterday. Even if he had correctly awarded a foul for Erling Haaland’s tug on ...Read More

There are loads of people I hate when it comes to football discourse, but high up the list are the people that say that you can’t comment on a referee if your team hasn’t played very well. The idea that it’s ‘making up excuses’ ...Read More

There is an extent to which, right now, we’re living in Schroedinger’s Premier League season. Liverpool are nine points off the top and eight behind Manchester City, albeit with a game-in-hand. To all intents and purposes, our season is already dead. Yet whilst we ...Read More