There’s nothing special about the grave of Liverpool’s greatest goalkeeper. Nothing glamorous about the sullen tombstone or the weeds that threaten to overrun the plot. It does the job without fuss or…
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This feature is part of Virtuoso If “comparison”, as former United States President Theodore Roosevelt said, “is the thief of joy”, it’s a wonder that so many football fans are so obsessed…
This feature is part of Virtuoso The year is 1994 and the late-August sun gleams down on the Anfield pitch as Liverpool lock horns with a powerfully-constructed Arsenal side. On the day,…
This feature is part of Virtuoso With such a vast and storied history, with legendary players and managers who achieved so much, to etch yourself into the folklore of a club like…
The opening goal set a hypnotically frantic tone. Captivatingly familiar for a derby game. Quality’s void filled with the excruciating knowledge that something is always about to happen. In clearing a David Unsworth…
It was March 2002 and Liverpool were flying high. As the 2001/02 Premier League season entered its closing stretch, manager Gérard Houllier made a grandiose declaration about his team’s future; they were,…
“The highs are never as high as you think and lows are never as low,” says Natasha Dowie, passing on some words of wisdom given to her by her wife and former…
This feature is part of Duology All the world is a stage but Luis Suárez and Daniel Sturridge were more than merely players. In 2013/14, their only full season together, the two…
This feature is part of Duology “Ian Rush celebrates the goal, but Kenny Dalglish is the creator supreme!” It was a cold Saturday afternoon in December, the final weeks of 1982, when…
This feature is part of Duology Alan Hansen and Mark Lawrenson’s union in the centre of defence for the all-conquering Liverpool of the 1980s was so hypnotic that time has managed to…
This feature is part of Duology English football loves tradition. At least, it used to. An FA Cup replay on a muddy pitch, a giant-killing, a midfield hard man, an old-fashioned winger…
This feature is part of Duology Steven Gerrard, more than most, is familiar with Liverpool’s revolving door of strikers. His illustrious career saw him take to the pitch with Robbie Fowler, Michael…
Being a full-back isn’t the most stylish of positions within the game of football, and it requires an overwhelming amount of selflessness. They’ll never dominate the accolades or be recognised for the…
I’m sat in Warsaw waiting for my connection home as part of a five-day odyssey by road to watch Liverpool lose in the European Cup final to Real Madrid. In fact, due…
In glorious but fleeting moments, Patrik Berger would show at Liverpool, and for the Czech Republic, why he was one of his era’s finest talents
The expected flood of nostalgia that’s ramped up over the past couple of weeks following Liverpool’s march into the Champions League semi-finals is a product almost as much of their opponents at…
THE 1975/76 SEASON in the old Division One was a whirlwind of beauty and, for a budding Queens Park Rangers, one of unspeakable cruelty. Liverpool supporters might barely have noticed Rangers being…
Goal! movie franchise producer, Mike Jefferies, talks Real Madrid, Zidane, Beckham, Liverpool and the craziest Hollywood football experience he ever had. When did you first get the idea to make a movie…