Analysis Archive

All but the most blindly loyal Liverpool fans will have been worried about the game against Leicester City on Sunday night. Brendan Rodgers’ team has been playing some great stuff so far this season, including their 5-2 win over Manchester City at the Etihad. ...Read More

Long-term readers will know that I have absolutely no love for international football at the best of times. I understand why those from outside of Liverpool might simultaneously support the Reds and want England to do well, but for those of us from the ...Read More

Like many Liverpool supporters, I settled in for a long night in front of the television last night expecting it to be tense and close in the football but a relatively easy win for the blue side in the politics. In the end it ...Read More

The match against FC Midtjylland was a slog to watch. We can try to dress it up however we want, but it wasn’t fun. The Reds barely came out of first gear and struggled to attain any sort of fluidity. There are loads of ...Read More

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece about how football with fans was, essentially, fine. I stand by everything that I wrote in that piece, but I was talking purely from the point of view of what it’s like as a visual ...Read More

As part of my ‘day job’ I recently had to write an article about the most common scores in football. Unsurprisingly, 7-2 wasn’t a score line that was all that high on the list of ones to look out for. It is therefore something ...Read More

It’s been a bit of a week, wouldn’t you say? Plenty of Liverpool supporters, even some that I have a huge amount of respect for, began to lose their bottle as the season got underway. Criticism of the owners and the transfer strategy employed ...Read More