Liverpool used to embody everything I aspired to be. When I first watched Michael Owen in my early years, I wanted to be like him. Young, talented, successful, and with never-ending potential. I wanted to make things happen. When I then recognized Steven Gerrard’s importance in the Liverpool team, I found the idea of being [...]
Posts Tagged ‘match report’
Wigan 3/24/2012: That’s It For Now
Posted: March 25, 2012 in Liverpool, Premier League match reportsTags: 2012, liverpool, match report, premier league, wigan
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QPR 3/21/2012: Speechless
Posted: March 22, 2012 in Liverpool, Premier League match reportsTags: 2012, liverpool, match report, premier league, qpr
Everton 03/13/2012: That’s More Like It
Posted: March 14, 2012 in Liverpool, Premier League match reportsTags: 2012, everton, liverpool, match report, merseyside derby, premier league
Finally, three points to show for a dominant performance. And what a performance. Liverpool barnstormed to a Steven Gerrard-sized destruction of Everton in the Merseyside derby last night. The skipper’s hattrick marked an emphatic return to winning ways, and in some style. Every single player on the pitch – even Stewart Downing, who played much [...]
Arsenal 3/3/2012: Over and Out
Posted: March 4, 2012 in Liverpool, Premier League match reportsTags: 2012, arsenal, liverpool, match report, premier league
Same old Anfield, just without a point. Once again, Liverpool won in all the statistical battles but came out inferior in the most important one of all. Perhaps, with two posts hit, a penalty missed and a few fine stops from Arsenal’s Wojciech Szczesny, Liverpool were unlucky to win. But with a total goal tally [...]
Cardiff 2/26/2012: Looking Forward
Posted: February 27, 2012 in Cup competitions, LiverpoolTags: 2012, cardiff, carling cup, final, liverpool, match report, wembley
Well. Kenny Dalglish and the boys were never going to heed my advice, were they? Liverpool were always going to do things the hard way, weren’t they? It’s never a Liverpool cup final unless it involves heart attacks and last-minute drama, and so it proved. That makes it three out of three for me in [...]
ManUtd 02/11/2012: The Disaster
Posted: February 12, 2012 in Liverpool, OthersTags: 2012, liverpool, luis suarez, manchester united, match report, premier league, racism row
Well, it just had to be, didn’t it? Before Liverpool’s trip to Old Trafford, a first in more than a year, there was so much to look forward to. Would Liverpool take their recent good form against Manchester United to them? Would we see a much-awaited front four of Andy Carroll, Luis Suarez, Steven Gerrard [...]
Tottenham 02/07/2012: The Non-Event
Posted: February 9, 2012 in Liverpool, Premier League match reportsTags: 2012, liverpool, match report, premier league, tottenham
It was the key moment that kept replaying on the post-program highlights reel as the credits rolled on Hong Kong’s TV coverage. It was the highlight that, a few days from the match, still triggers fond memories. It was the unforgettable minute that saw a dedicated Twitter account set up and a chant devised just [...]
Wolves 01/31/2012: In Which He Came Of Age
Posted: February 1, 2012 in Liverpool, Premier League match reportsTags: 2012, liverpool, match report, premier league, wolves
After an uninspiring start to life back at Anfield, Kenny Dalglish oversaw a 3-1 win against Wolves that got the ball rolling. Raul Meireles hit a peach of a volley, and Fernando Torres scored his first under a former striking legend. Things were certainly on the up. Then Torres put in his transfer request. And [...]
Stoke 01/14/2012: Out of Ideas
Posted: January 15, 2012 in Liverpool, Premier League match reportsTags: liverpool, match report, premier league, stoke
A mere few days ago, Liverpool traveled to the Etihad Stadium and came away with a battling 1-0 away win to take into the second leg of the Carling Cup semifinal. A dominant first 15 minutes, a crisply dispatched penalty from Steven Gerrard, a subsequent 75 minutes of resolute defending. Now, providing that Kenny Dalglish’s [...]
ManCity 01/04/2012: New Year, Same Problems
Posted: January 4, 2012 in Liverpool, Premier League match reportsTags: liverpool, manchester city, match report, premier league
To those who thought Liverpool’s relatively clinical performance against Newcastle in the last game of 2011 would be a sign of Liverpool finally approaching the end of a long, dark, profligate tunnel: yup, another false dawn. I’m beginning to lose count of the number of false dawns we Liverpool fans have experienced this season. Sure, [...]
