• Tiki Taka for Tots
    Daniel has the ball. Run, Daniel, run! Raheem has the ball. Run, Raheem, run! Mario has the ball! Run, Mario, run! Run, Mario, run! Run, Mar… oh, for Pete’s sake, just give it to Jordon..!
  • Thirteen Way of Looking at a Football
    I Among twenty two men, the only moving thing was the blur of the football. II I was of three minds, like a field on which there are three officials. III The football whirled in the autumn winds. It was a small part of the Premiership. IV A man and a woman are one. A […]
  • Passing Through
    I looked to the streets, the bars, the Bingo halls; the Legion, the betting shop, the fields of Anfield Road. I listened for a solitary voice whispering my name in the massed throng of the Spion Kop. I felt the spirit of Shankly passing through me, and the man I became beheld the boy I […]
  • Double Bill
    Your rosette might have painted the first splash of blue on the Anfield gates that Saturday the news from Sheffield threatened to crush the spirit of Shankly. You might even have been there, the Henry Winter of your era, sharing Press Box disbelief to hear the final whistle blow before anyone had time to catch […]
  • We Go Again Haiku
    end of the season: beginning of the reasons to believe again