Why Antonio Conte is a “special kind of coach” – and how he turned Chelsea into table toppers
“He is a manager the players love to play for”
10 years ago
Tony Barrett
Steven Gerrard set to turn down chance to take over at League One club
He is prepared to wait for the right opportunity
10 years ago
Why the FA have finally got it spot on over Jordan Henderson and Adam Lallana’s strip club visit
At last – some push back to the sanctimonious, holier-than-thou brigade
10 years ago
Don’t let the result fool you – this was a better day for Manchester United than it was for Arsenal
Another missed opportunity for Arsene Wenger.
10 years ago
Barcelona might covet Coutinho but Liverpool are in a position of strength
Liverpool’s situation isn’t the same as when other key players left for Spain
10 years ago
Dejan Lovren: We need to give refugees a chance – I should know, I was one
“I was quite small. I was just three years old so my memories are mainly of playing with other kids. We would be outside picking the carrots out of the ground and things like that, the kind of stuff that was normal for children who grew up in ordinary places all over the world. But my […]
10 years ago
Liverpool could have first January transfer target agreed upon already
The club are weighing up their options with Sadio Mane away on international duty in January.
10 years ago
Liverpool go top of the league in style, and no one can say they don’t deserve it
They looked unstoppable against Watford
10 years ago
The appointment of a sporting director shows the Reds are back to doing things the ‘Liverpool way’
The success in the 1960s, 70s and 80s was built on promotion from within
10 years ago
FIFA’s poppy stance is not anti-British or anti-remembrance – it’s entirely fair and consistent
The real question is how it became such a contentious issue
10 years ago
Ronald Koeman talking up an Everton return for Wayne Rooney might not be about Rooney at all
The Dutchman might be playing a very clever game here
10 years ago
Why Liverpool really signed £32.5m Christian Benteke – despite the fact it made NO sense
Tony Barrett investigates the move that looked doomed from the start
10 years ago
Gay footballers have nothing to hide, but the 8% that resent them have no place in the game
There is still so much to do to eradicate homophobia from the game.
10 years ago
Liverpool’s attacking trident is thriving at Anfield as Daniel Sturridge kicks his heels
A winning formula…
10 years ago
Daniel Sturridge, Paul Pogba and Jose Mourinho’s gameplan – the key talking points from Anfield
Stalemate at Anfield
10 years ago
The inside story of how close Jose Mourinho came to becoming manager of Liverpool
What might have been
10 years ago
‘If it wasn’t for Everton In The Community, I wouldn’t be here’ – The story of how Everton FC saved my life
“All of those nasty, dark feelings were gone instantly”
10 years ago
Eight ways Jurgen Klopp has changed Liverpool in his first year in charge
This week marks exactly a year since he took the Anfield hotseat.
10 years ago
Jason McAteer tells SportsJOE the truth about the Liverpool Spice Boys – and why he still “resents” Gerard Houllier
“All of this stuff about having been a Liverpool fan – I just wasn’t buying it”
10 years ago
Liverpool’s first black player Howard Gayle tells SportsJOE why MBE offer was “an insult”
He spoke to Tony Barrett in a wide-ranging interview
10 years ago
Loris Karius has got away with it so far – but now it’s crunch time for him AND Jurgen Klopp
Liverpool’s new goalkeeper is yet to convince
10 years ago
Jason McAteer on the Roy Keane he knows and the Roy Keane the public sees
The Saipan showdown happened nearly 15 years ago.
10 years ago
“I just started spiralling out of control” – Jason McAteer opens up to SportsJOE about his depression and suicidal thoughts
“I kept having these thoughts like ‘Fuck it, I can’t be arsed any more’. “I was driving through the Mersey tunnel this day and the cars on the other side of the road are heading towards me and I just thought ‘If I just give it one of them right now and go right across […]
10 years ago
If Sam Allardyce is in the dock then so too should be the FA chiefs who appointed him
The responsibility for due diligence and vetting rests squarely on their shoulders
10 years ago
How Jurgen Klopp proved the rest of us wrong with James Milner’s reinvention
Pretty much everyone else in football disagreed – but he was convinced
10 years ago
Whisper it but Liverpool are showing the form and focus of title challengers
A sign of things to come?
10 years ago
Liverpool are Europe’s biggest selling club – but that could all change with Jurgen Klopp in charge
The Reds have made more money from player sales than any other club in Europe
10 years ago
What the Manchester United dressing room leaks mean for Jose Mourinho
He knows that such allegations are designed to send a message
10 years ago
How Pep Guardiola played the perfect tactical game in his spat with Yaya Toure’s agent
There was only one winner in the battle between manager and agent
10 years ago
Why events of the summer of 2013 have left Simon Mignolet in no doubt as to Loris Karius’s threat
“I always felt it was important for us to have competition right the way through the squad, and that includes the goalkeepers. We’ve got great competition and when you’ve got competition it pushes everyone to perform.” Brendan Rodgers, July 2013. Simon Mignolet knows better than most what competition means. When he joined Liverpool from Sunderland […]
10 years ago
Jose Mourinho must recognise the biggest cause of Manchester United’s problems is himself
Has he lost whatever it was that made him special?
10 years ago
How Jurgen Klopp set about redefining Daniel Sturridge’s Liverpool career
Treating him mean, or at least not indulging him, is keeping him keen
10 years ago
Why Arsene Wenger’s “experience” claim about his Arsenal side is missing the point entirely
Age is not an issue for Arsenal but progress quite clearly is
10 years ago
Why Celtic’s Champions League campaign gives Brendan Rodgers the chance to right the wrongs of his Liverpool reign
He never quite cracked it with Liverpool
10 years ago
The 4 biggest talking points from the Premier League weekend as Pep gets the better of Jose
Pep vs Jose, who Leicester are missing most, and Liverpool’s new key man
10 years ago
Liverpool finally have the stadium and the manager they craved – now FSG’s vision can be realised
In one sense, it is only a new stand; an architectural triumph rather than a sporting one. It may allow 8,500 more people to watch but they will still be watching the same team. The real significance of Liverpool’s impressively renovated Main Stand, though, is to be found in what it represents. For the first […]
10 years ago
We shouldn’t be called goalkeepers any more, we are more like goal players – Pepe Reina talks to SportsJOE
The former Liverpool number one offers up his thoughts on Joe Hart and more
10 years ago
Thirst for technology in football has created as many problems as it has solved
Fear of making a mistake has put referees in no man’s land – now they cannot win
10 years ago
The inside story of Liverpool’s transfer window: How Jurgen Klopp’s influence took hold
Having spent much of the previous 25 years acquiring left backs of various levels of inadequacy, in the most recent transfer window Liverpool came up with a radical approach to dealing with their problem position for a generation by signing none. The concern caused by a weakness going unaddressed was as predictable as it was understandable but no one should […]
10 years ago