Analysis Archive

When Euro ’96 came to town, I was thirteen-years-old. I was still at the formative stage of my Liverpool supporting life, not yet really aware of the club biases that dominated my existence in later years. I remember certain moments from the tournament: Paul ...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

As a season that felt like it was never going to end finally comes to a close, it’s worth a brief reflection on just what an incredible achievement Jürgen Klopp has pulled off. Even as recently as a month ago, Liverpool finishing in the ...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

There’s something odd about the fact that Manchester United supporters chose to launch their protest on a weekend when there was a social media blackout around football, but also something rather fitting. The fans that broke into Old Trafford and stood on the steps ...Read More

In the wake of our 1-1 draw with Leeds United, I posited on Twitter that, sometimes, we had to be able to win a game 1-0. The match against the Yorkshire side had been fairly evenly matched, even though we should have put the ...Read More

Decent on the night but ultimately disappointing. Enough about my Tinder bio, let’s talk about Liverpool and the manner in which our performances against Real Madrid across the two legs of the Champions League quarter-final were something of a microcosm of our season. In ...Read More