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Graeme Souness
Now if ever there was a player and/or manager who divided opinion it would be Graeme Souness. Loved as a player, not so as a manager. During his playing days he was the ultimate midfielder. Feared, respected, highly rated and coveted in equal measures it would seem. It was being coveted that led to Graeme […]
West Ham 1 Liverpool 2 – The Reds Edge Closer
Many pundits often say that to be a successful team you have to acquire the acumen or the nous to win ugly. In other words, to be able to win a match even though you are not playing particularly well. The sign of true champions is to be able to grind out a result when […]
Liverpool March On In March
After the victory against Swansea we faced some very testing away fixtures in March – three in succession as it happens. The first one at Southampton had “difficult”and “banana skin” stamped right through it, but Liverpool more than acquitted themselves when they came away with a relatively comfortable 3-0 victory. I say “relatively” as Southampton […]
The Season So Far – Mixed Fortunes In December
The busy month of December saw us feature in seven Premier League games, four of which resulted in emphatic victories while the other three ended in defeat. Let us consider the three defeats first. Two of them we lost with heads held high and with many positives to take from those games. The other defeat […]
13th March 1982
Liverpool retained the League Cup at Wembley quite comfortably when they beat Tottenham Hotspur 3-1. Two goals from Ronnie Whelan and another from Ian Rush ensured that Liverpool became the first team to retain the League Cup since Brian Clough’s Nottingham Forest, after they beat Liverpool then Southampton in 1978 and 1979. Although Spurs went […]
Liverpool v Spurs – More Suarez Magic?
This Sunday (10th March 2013) not only sees a possibly classic clash between two of the Premier League’s finest footballing sides, Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur but it also sees two of the in-form and arguably the two best players in the Premier League pit their wits against each other – Luis Suarez and Gareth Bale. […]