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Humbling to listen to some of the men and women who escaped the central pens in the Leppings Lane terrace at Hillsborough. It takes unbelievable courage to open up about that day and the consequences. Please take the time to read their stories. No paywall.
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At Marine, where the floodlights have gone out. One of Dunston’s midfielders is a spark and he’s trying to sort it out. Now on the phone to a mate back in the north east.
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Attention Britain! Cancel your leisure activities but continue to go to work (providing your workplace isn't at a football ground).
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Anfield's ball boys were instructed last night to serve Liverpool's players quickly after the club's match analysts noticed how Barcelona dawdled around set pieces. Fourteen-year-old Oakley Cannonier will never forget his role in an incredible night.
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Andy Robertson has been absolutely brilliant for Liverpool this season.
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Dier fouls Firmino and this prompts him to move the ball from his hand to Firmino’s hand. Fifty yards later, Liverpool score. Outcome: Tottenham free kick. Make sense of that.
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Football NARRATIVE. At Villa Park last week, Liverpool were denied two barely discussed penalties and had a goal FAIRLY ruled out in accordance with the new rules because Firmino’s armpit hair had strayed beyond the last defender. They found a way to win. Lucky again, I guess.
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Henderson bollocking Chamberlain (his best mate). Klopp bollocking Van Dijk (his best player). This is a loud Liverpool team. Nobody spared. Could hear them in the din of Molineux. Alisson incredible again. There when you need him. He leaves the pitch with Firmino. What a finish.
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It wouldn’t be a proper Champions League campaign without at least one crap result for Liverpool.
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That old Bill Shankly saying about the two best teams in the city being Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
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Liverpool could be investigated after the postponement of the Arsenal game last week. Mathematically unusual that only one player suddenly has COVID after further testing. Understand an independent lab had previously delivered positive results.
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Jürgen Klopp, a choker. Jordan Henderson, rubbish captain. Mohamed Salah, one-season wonder. Divock Origi, Wolfsburg. Liverpool: European champions. From Madrid. With love.
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Klopp called Fergie at 3.30am to tell him he’d won the league!
BREAKING: Jürgen Klopp has won the Sir Alex Ferguson Trophy for the LMA Manager of the Year at the LMA Awards 🏆
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Liverpool have already beaten Paris Saint German, Napoli and Bayern Munich to reach the quarter finals. But - I suppose - they’re lucky...
“Liverpool are always, always lucky! Arsenal have got a harder draw.”
“There’s a string of luck for Liverpool in Europe. Does everybody realise?” 💭
@talkSPORTDrive
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#LFC
have been lucky again after drawing Porto 🤞
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What a team this is. Best Liverpool team in my lifetime by a mile. Most complete league performance of the Klopp era. Frighteningly dominant. Just love the spirit and skill. Fair now to make the comparison in terms of passing/crossing between Trent and Gerrard.
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Still can’t believe Liverpool got Klopp as manager to be honest.
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Jota isn’t just interest. There has been discussion and feeling that a deal is close.
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@AndyMitten
Assuming United-Arsenal between 1998 and 2004 aren’t the greatest teams ever either. United at that time with their one European Cup success since 1968 and Arsenal still waiting for their first?
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Liverpool are playing Manchester City in London on a weekend and there are no trains between two of the biggest cities in the country and the capital. It’s remarkable what people put up with, football supporter or not.
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The really promising thing about this Liverpool team is, they don’t look any less hungry or focused.
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Liverpool’s players better at organising themselves and communicating their thoughts than the club’s owners ever will be.
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Jordan Henderson staying at Liverpool is good news. Announcing this agreement on transfer deadline day is an *interesting* move.
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Liverpool reminding why they are European champions. Majestic from Van Dijk. Made Haaland look like a bus with no breaks. Another captain’s performance from Henderson. Moved on to a new level this season. Passing range seems to have increased. Keita glided through that. Superb.
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Tend to think the world would be a better place if it stopped viewing players and managers in the first instance by their fame, their money and who they represent. Can’t believe Jurgen Klopp has held it together over the last few weeks to be honest.
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Alisson as big for Liverpool as Schmeichel was for United.
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Jurgen Klopp is scheduled to leave Liverpool in 2024. I think the club should give him the sabbatical he wants and allow him to return at a later date. Players and their contracts matter but he is irreplaceable.
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Mohamed Salah has scored more goals for Liverpool than Ruud van Nistelrooy for Manchester United across five seasons and he’s not even a centre forward. That is the standard we’re talking about here. Of course, United let their star go at 30 and didn’t regret it.
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Of all the Liverpool legends on TV last night, enjoyed seeing Souness the most. A quiet satisfaction in him, one I’ve never seen before. Realise why some will never forgive him but he lives with his regrets every day and genuinely loves the club.
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This is exactly what happened.
#UCL
Final delay: How it happened 👇
Sky Sports News chief reporter Kaveh Solhekol is outside the Stade de France where "the situation has now calmed down."
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Spoken to lots of people over the last few weeks about Liverpool’s first title in 30 years. Nobody has mentioned a yearning to eclipse a points record as well. Social media very much an alternative world.
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Juventus were watching Eriksen at Anfield on Sunday. When asked which Liverpool player they’d like to sign, an Italian club official said, ‘we couldn’t afford one.’
What’s going on with Christian Eriksen? My piece on the frustrations of a player who doesn’t look himself anymore.
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Remember Liverpool’s darkest days under Hodgson, when the team was ninth after 14 games on 19 points - nine behind leaders, Chelsea?
Manchester United are currently in the same position after the same number of games on one point less - albeit 22 behind the leaders, Liverpool.
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Relieved to be out of that. Police checks just beyond narrow underpasses made tighter by presence of vans unnecessarily. Crowd very patient but was becoming tense. I was there two hours and twenty minutes before kick off, like a huge number of people. Only getting in now.
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Emre Can. Not included in Juventus’ Champions League squad.
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The sort of performance from Liverpool that puts an asterisk against anyone who claims they are not worthy champions.
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Sadio Mane is a Liverpool great and don’t you forget it.
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The feel-good story of the year.
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My uncle, a season ticket holder at Anfield, is in London for his 70th birthday. He’s just bumped into Mohamed Salah. Though on this photograph, Salah looks happier to have met my uncle.
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Liverpool reached the Champions League final half an hour ago. I’m still in the press box typing away. Liverpool supporters will be here for another 90 minutes. Out of nowhere, Jürgen Klopp appears and runs to the corner of the ground, celebrating again. A great moment.
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If it ends well for Liverpool on Sunday, it’s only right they allow Nat Phillips to leave Anfield on a chariot, supplying him with a sword, a dagger and a shield. Reckon he’d still try and slay a lion with his head.
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Liverpool lucky not to be 5-0 down after 30 minutes in Naples. Shambolic.
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‘Inconceivable’ that the villages and towns of shire England won’t do congas in the street while there’s a pandemic going on, says no police commissioner.
Exclusive: 'Inconceivable' that Premier League supporters will not turn up to home matches, says police commissioner |
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My Diego Maradona story. Sixty today. Liverpool playing Atletico. He’s in charge of Argentina. Wanders onto Anfield’s old main stand staircase. Silence. Place falls silent. Lad breaks that silence: “Alright there, Diego, lad.”
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Not lying, that’s the first time I’ve jumped from my seat in lockdown because of something that has happened in a football match. My daughter is 16 months old and usually hates loud noises. Giggling away this time. Absolutely thrilled by the madness around her.
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Liverpool go into the final day for the third time in eight years needing points and for City to mess up to secure the title. Will never forget the 50 odd seconds in 2019 when it felt like that might happen. Will never forget the long sobering walk home later that night either.
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A protest against billionaires by mocking poverty. WELL DONE, LADS. Well done.
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Should probably ignore it but the number of people ‘finding themselves agreeing with Piers Morgan - so weird’ is doing my head in. He’s not informed and he’s not on your side. The only thing he knows is which way the wind is blowing.
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Liverpool have now dropped points from five league games this season where they have led. Second is the best they can do from here in my view.
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I mean, where was Lovren for Villa’s sixth and seventh goals? Don’t give me St. Petersburg, simply not tight enough to his man.
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FIFA to extend 2019-20 football season indefinitely.
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Fee for Fekir likely to be €60million in total, including bonuses. For those who deal ONLY in pounds, that’s roughly £60million thanks to the lads and lasses willing to follow Farage and Johnson into the darkness.
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Eleven years ago Paul Cook was sacked by Southport. Tonight he stands as the outstanding manager in League One having masterminded a victory over the best team in the country and the richest club on the planet.
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Been a wonderfully crazy week. My wife gave birth to a baby girl on Tuesday night. Tend not to bring personal stuff on here but for this I’ll make an exception (yes, she probably thinks her dad’s a seafarer/pirate). Thanks for lots of nice messages.
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Liverpool haven’t played Ajax in a competitive game since 1966, which is a bit mad when you think about it.
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A really big win for Liverpool. Fabinho and Robertson outstanding.
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Liverpool’s shirt sponsor Standard Chartered has provided £6.18bn of financing to a company which owns a mine that is causing “irreparable damage” to Luis Diaz’s village and surrounding areas. Investigation from
@jwhitey98
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Football supporters are betraying their own backgrounds, their shared histories and current struggles when they mock the poverty of other places. Can it please stop?
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With and without the ball, Thiago very, very good for Liverpool tonight. If he continues with the same rhythm between now and the end of the season, could be hugely influential.
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UEFA blaming late arrival of fans. This is a fucking disgrace. Not true. Build up caused by dangerous organisation way beyond time fans are normally expected to enter a stadium. They suddenly gave up on a bad idea.
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It wasn’t a minute’s silence and it wasn’t abandoned. I didn’t hear any booing, only reaction to a few isolated football shouts.
At Anfield. Minute's silence for the Queen abandoned after 30-40 seconds. Smattering of loud boos and jeers, despite efforts of the vast majority to respect the moment.
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Don’t think the Premier League can stand still with that decision...
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Piers Morgan is not on your side and that is all I have to say about him.
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This version of football isn’t for me. It’s absolutely shite on every possible level. A column.
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Liverpool supporters booing at Wembley is a lesson in history few of those shaking their heads want to listen to (or perhaps read about) but it’s about time they did.
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Happened again yesterday, I hear. Always the victim, never your fault. When Liverpudlians say this is offensive, they are usually told the song relates purely to Suarez. I, and many others, have a problem with that (as many did with Suarez when he did what he did).
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Many probably don’t realise what Dan has sacrificed over the last month. He’s lost pay in pursuit of the truth about what happened in Paris. He’s done this because of his love of Liverpool as a city. Without him, the conversation wouldn’t be where it is now.
I am unexpectedly losing a chunk of my freelance work quite abruptly, so I'm open to taking on a new project or something full-time.
If you would like me to write/present/investigate/talk about football and/or F1, we should talk.
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Wijnaldum, nobody shepherds the ball like him. In fact, I’m wondering whether he’s leaving to become a shepherd.
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There was a moment in the second half when Adama Traore tried to race past Virgil van Dijk. Suddenly, van Dijk had taken the ball. Traore’s night was over. Wolves were beaten. Van Dijk then scored. I’ve never seen a defender like him represent Liverpool.
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A world where it’s more important to be seen to be doing something than actually doing it.
2-0 in your derby, No limbs... just get your phone out and record yourself... ok
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Absolutely brilliant, that. Shame the Klopp/Guardiola era has to come to an end. I'm not sure whether any set of managers have delivered that level of quality before. Or whether any others will be able to in the future. I hope so.
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Jürgen Klopp inherited a team tenth in the league, a club divided and saddled with unwanted history. Liverpool are now English champions, reigning European champions and the best team in the world. Without him, none of this is possible. He’s a messiah.
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One of those refereeing performances at Anfield where you wonder whether it might just be a better idea to get rid of them entirely and have a bloke on the touchline blowing an air horn randomly.
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A depressing reminder of why football will never change
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Caoimhin Kelleher, as calm as you like. Curtis Jones a star in the making and not just because of his match winning goal. Everything considered, Liverpool are doing alright at the moment.
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My long term concern with VAR is this: risks fans, when they are present, not celebrating legitimate goals (as much, or at all) and therefore transforms the mood of the entire game and the sport. In my view, not worth it.
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Firmino today. Both the circus ringmaster and a magician. Directing the show. Delivering sorcery. His mates up front scored. He didn’t. But what a player. Liverpool a bit casual at times. Maybe they can afford to be at home now.
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I think Liverpool have finally concluded their 30-odd year search for a left back.
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Bill Shankly and Sir Alex Ferguson missed cup games for the good of their clubs, so why shouldn’t Jürgen Klopp? He’d made a promise to his players. To go back on that would undermine the strength of his management.
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Last summer began with the Virgil van Dijk fiasco. This summer began with a major deal being announced only an hour or so after the speculation started in France. Outfoxing rivals (and journalists). Very old school. Credit where credit is due.
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Wondering how many times Liverpool as a city will be asked to reinvent itself because of measures imposed upon it by the government. It’s not an exaggeration to suggest that unless there’s appropriate economic support from the centre, we’re plunging into darkness.
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Joe Anderson’s comments today are disgraceful. Does he think Liverpool supporters - particularly those in his own city - are somehow immune from what’s going on around them?
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One other thing from today. When you have supporters from another great northern city such as Newcastle singing about unemployment rates in Liverpool, you appreciate why the Tories get in. You also remember why Ashley is still there.
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Curtis Jones really needs to believe in himself a bit more.
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No better way to win a football match. No worse a way to lose one. Conceding from a corner with injury time approaching not very Mourinho at all. Curtis Jones is going to be some player.
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Jordan Henderson: Premier League winning captain, Champions League winning captain, Footballer of the Year. A player who proved lots of people wrong.
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Xabi Alonso is living and working in his home city for the first time in 15 years. I went to San Sebastián, where he coaches Real Sociedad B. He wants to be respected for what he is doing rather than remembered for what he has done. Exclusive interview.
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After 32 years, there is no justice for what happened at Hillsborough. Had this been the Soviet Union, western leaders would have used it as an example of state failure. Instead, this is Britain. And over there, somewhere, is Liverpool.
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Gnarly performance from Liverpool. Another character test passed. Fabinho the best player in his position in the Premier League now. If Son was available, I’d love to see him at Anfield more regularly...
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Give the captaincy to Trent Alexander-Arnold.
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The Liverpool job isn’t just about managing the team. He’s a spokesman for the club and its surroundings. Klopp is incredible at both.
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GLAZER OUT and YOU’LL NEVER GET A JOB. What chance does football have when the billionaires show greater solidarity than the fans?
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This is not a defence of Joe Anderson AT ALL but Liverpool suffered a 58 percent budget cut under Tory austerity between 2010 and 2017. When Jenrick talks about a ‘pervasive and rotten’ culture he might want to think about the consequences of his own party’s decisions.
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Liverpool have agreed a fee of around €30m with Bayern Munich for Thiago. Exclusive here:
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