February 2008 Archives

WHO would make your combined Liverpool/Everton XI if it was based on player form over the last 12 months?
I've got my head together with Bluenose, and fellow ECHO blogger Greg O'Keeffe, and we're picking alternative starting line ups.
Sure we won't agree.

THE race for 4th place is well and truly on.
Everton showed last night by dispatching early pace-setters Man City that they mean to push us all the way for the Champions League spot this season.
This time, Liverpool are not merely going to flop into fourth spot without some commitment, hard work and positivity on the pitch.

SO the first trophy of the season goes to Spurs, news that will sit fairly comfortably on the Red half of Merseyside.
Not that any Liverpool fan particularly wants any other team other than the Reds to do well, but I've never fostered the same hostility towards Tottenham as I do towards some other Premiership clubs.
What's the reason?

SOME opposition football 'fans' never cease to amaze me.
For blinkered, over the top, offensive opionions, you just can't beat the beautiful game.
The majority of views on Jamie Carragher from some of our delightful rivals demonstrate my point.

I sat in the Main Stand for the first time in years last month.
Having got used to the straight-talking on The Kop in recent times, it was a strange and sometimes frustrating experience.

READING the Lpool/Inter match report in the ECHO on Wednesday morning, my eye was drawn to a headline suggesting how struggling striker Dirk Kuyt had been inspired to victory by some very special words from his talismanic skipper.
What was this jaw-dropping monologue that urged the Dutchman to once more step into the breach?

LAST night, Liverpool beat arguably the best side in Europe at the moment.
On Saturday, no disrepect to The Tykes, they surrended shockingly to a Barnsley side swimming the waters of middle-table mediocrity in The Championship.
Reds fans must be scratching the today wondering how we can go from the ridiculous to the sublime in just a matter of days.