And Could He Play

The dust has settled on the season, though the battle with UEFA and the French authorities will, quite rightly, rage on throughout the summer. From a footballing point of view, however, it is all over and done with and we’re left to ponder what ...Read More

I would normally write about the football. In the wake of the Champions League final, I was relatively certain that I would be writing about the football. Yet in the wake of what happened in Paris, it is impossible to write about football. I’m ...Read More

When Sadio Mané missed his penalty on Saturday, I thought that that was the moment that the FA Cup was going to slip from our grasp. Having battered Chelsea pretty much throughout the first-half, there was only a small flurry at the start of ...Read More

I was really tempted to write this entire piece about Jon Moss and how little I’m going to miss him. Any referee with even an ounce of self-respect would have retired in the immediate aftermath of being caught on camera saying that they were ...Read More

Originally, my plan was to write an apology to Divock Origi today. I have long been semi-critical of the Belgian, simply because I always felt that he was a ‘man for moments, not matches’. Having watched him trudge around the pitch many times in ...Read More

I have already written a piece explaining why I don’t think Liverpool will win the quadruple. Manchester City will pile everything that they’ve got into winning the Premier League, with Real Madrid’s defensive structure such that I think Pep Guardiola’s side will breeze past ...Read More

I’m quite annoyed about last night. Let me be clear from the outset that I did not travel to Portugal, so I wasn’t on the ground and didn’t experience what countless Liverpool fans experienced both before and after the match. Yet I also don’t ...Read More