And Could He Play

In his interview with ITV after last night’s match, Jürgen Klopp said something about the second Wolverhampton Wanderers goal that I thought was curious. I’m paraphrasing, but he essentially said, “They walked through out midfield, which shouldn’t be allowed to happen”. The reason I ...Read More

I have said many times that I think that Jürgen Klopp is the best manager in the world. What he has achieved at Liverpool far outstrips what Pep Guardiola has done at Manchester City because the German hasn’t been able to spend £100 million ...Read More

The good news is that the World Cup is over. There will forever be a debate about whether the country’s sports washing exercise was a successful one, with many believing that a spotlight has been shone on Qatar’s human rights record that wasn’t there ...Read More

The World Cup is reaching its final stages, with only a few Liverpool players still out in Qatar and helping to sports-wash the reputation of a murderous, oppressive regime. England’s exist at the hands of France means that Ibrahima Konaté remains out there, but ...Read More

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