Author: Dean Mannion

Liverpool

Season in Review: 1998/99

Strange decisions in football should never be welcomed with surprise. Throughout the history for the game, many men in high places have taken decisions which have shocked and puzzled fans regularly. Some have been calculated gambles which have paid off. Some have been wild guesses which have had dire consequences. There are some which take […]

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Friends Of Liverpool

5 out of 15

With the season fast approaching, the bigwigs here at FMG asked me to preview the biggest 5 games out of the first 15 in Liverpool’s league campaign. “That’s tricky. Klopp thinks we’ll win the league – they’re all important!” I said. “Just pick the must win ones,” they said. “They’re all must win,” I said. […]

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The Legacy of Lucas

Lucas Leiva breezed into Liverpool in July 2007 from Gremio. Rafa Benitez had been after the 21-year-old Brazilian for the best part of 6 months and finally managed to snag his man for £5.5 million. At the time, Lucas was a young midfielder who was in the midst of making the switch from all action […]

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Liverpool

Season in Review: 2013/14

Brendan Rodgers had taken over Liverpool in July 2012 following the departure of Kenny Dalglish. Brendan bought into the club right away and it was easy to like him, despite his cheesiness and being seen as quite smarmy. Still, his first season brought attacking football based on possession and retention of the ball to Anfield, […]

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Match Report

Match Report: Liverpool 1-1 Atletico Madrid

Frequently last season Liverpool played sides whose sole aim was to frustrate them. So often we faced teams that would sit on the edge of their own 18 yard box and constrict the pitch, before trying to hit Liverpool on the break and scoring. It took us until March to figure out this problem and […]

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Match Report

Match Report: Bayern Munich 0-3 Liverpool

Pre-season games should never be something to get excited about. Managers always try to keep hype to a minimum, always stressing that these are just ‘run outs’ to get players back into the swing of things ready for the new season. No matter how good or bad your team plays, the message is always the […]

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Match Report

Match Report: Hertha Berlin 0-3 Liverpool

Germany football is not like English football in the way it is organised. It’s cup competitions usually start far earlier in the season and, in fact, its League Cup starts in July and finishes before the year is out. For that reason, German teams are usually much further ahead in the pre-season preparations by now. […]

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Liverpool

Season in Review: 2000/01

Seasons like this do not come along often. Nobody could see this coming. Silverware is the end game for every player, manager and fan. When you’re growing up you don’t dream of fourth place finishes. You can’t put a league runners up spot in a trophy cabinet. There are no open top bus parades for […]

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Match Report

Match Report: Liverpool 2-1 Leicester City

Pre-season tournaments can be a recipe for disaster. There are a number of ingredients which can contribute to this. Firstly, who are you playing? If you are playing teams from your own country or division, especially teams you are expected to beat, then people start to look into your performances very deeply. Secondly, what is […]

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Liverpool

Season in Review: 2014/15

There have been few successful league seasons for Liverpool since the inception of the Premier League. It’s common knowledge, much to our rivals delight, that we have never won the league. But we have finished as close runners-up on a couple of occasions. Unfortunately for us, those occasions have been few and far between. Also […]

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