Author: Eion Smith
Brighton vs Liverpool Match Preview
Team News Both sides come into this game with very few definite injury absentees. Liverpool will once again be without right-back Nathaniel Clyne, rather forgotten about with the continued excellent form of Joe Gomez and Trent Alexander-Arnold, who is a long-term absentee with a back injury. Adam Lallana and Ragnar Klavan are in line for […]
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FoL on: Virgil van Dijk
Last Saturday’s Premier League tie saw Southampton visit Anfield and get beaten 3-0. All very routine and the big story coming from that game wasn’t Salah’s brace or Liverpool keeping a clean sheet with Dejan Lovren at the back but in fact Southampton’s golden goose, Virgil van Dijk. Jurgen Klopp has came out and hinted […]
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Behind The Badge: Eion Smith
Name Eion Smith Supported Club Liverpool (shocker, right?) How Long? Don’t like to out my age too much but since the day of my birth 23 years ago. What Began The Support? Quite simple really. My dad has been a Liverpool fan since he was about 8 or 9 and grew up with the side […]
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FoL on: Dejan Lovren
The term ‘much maligned’ is perhaps the most appropriate one for Liverpool’s Croatian centre-back Dejan Lovren. Since his £20 million arrival back in 2014, he’s been a consistent target for why our defensive record has been so appalling. There have been fleeting moments where he’s been solid and a last minute winner in the Europa […]
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FoL on: Daniel Sturridge’s Future
The Daniel Sturridge debate has been one that has raged on ever since Jurgen Klopp’s arrival at Anfield and was intensified by the striker’s recent performances. With an injury record to rival Wilshere and Carroll and Klopp’s penchant for using him from the bench more often than not, it’s safe to say that his future […]
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FoL on: The Criticism of Klopp
It’s not been a good couple of weeks to be a Liverpool fan, has it? Some disappointing results and performances since the international break has seen discontent at boss Jurgen Klopp start to come to the fore. Coupled with a perceived lack of activity in the transfer market, some selection decisions that have not come […]
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Worst XI: The Man That Could Not Escape The Second Tier
We’ve reached the end. All the positions have been filled from 1-11, goalkeeper to centre forward and now it is time to give this wretched XI an equally wretched manager. Here are the results: 1. Phil Taylor 56% 2. Roy Hodgson 36% 3. Graeme Souness 8% Yes, it’s […]
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Greatest Transfers #7 – The Turning Point
Welcome back to The Greatest Transfers where this week we’ve hit our number seven. Thankfully, we’ve not literally hit him otherwise we’d probably end up being knocked straight into next week like so many poor strikers did in the past. Yes, our latest player was an absolute colossus. A man so broad and so big […]
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The Worst XI: How to waste £1.8 million in 1998
Welcome back to the penultimate edition of the Worst XI and it’s beginning to become that time where I get all wistful and thank you for reading etc. while you question quite how I’ve been allowed to keep this going since early May. But I digress because we have incredibly important matters to attend to […]
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What Do You Do With Marko Grujic?
Jurgen Klopp’s first transfer window at Liverpool in January of 2016 was one of little note. The only real ruffle the recently appointed boss made was when he spent £5.1 million to bring a young Serbian named Marko Grujic to Anfield. Little was known of Grujic outside of Serbia (where he was really impressing for […]
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