Author: Eion Smith

Greatest Transfers #8 – The Fearless Leader

Having last week talked about the impact Gary McAllister had in the heart of the midfield in 2000-2002, it’s fitting that number eight is also a midfield great at Liverpool for a host of very different reasons. It’s also apropos that he’s another Scot and, while I’m opening myself to bias accusations here, it can’t […]

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The Worst XI

The Worst XI: Stay Away From Corners!

Another week and another player reveal for the Friends of Liverpool Worst XI as voted for by you, our loyal and lovely readers. We’re into the final three reveals now and that means we’ve reach the front two. We, of course, know our goalkeeper, full backs, centre backs, wide midfielders and central midfielders so who are going […]

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The Greatest Transfers #9: The OAP

Welcome back to the latest edition of The Greatest Transfers where we take a look at some of the best Liverpool signings of all time as judged by me, meaning this list is not what you’d call gospel. Anyway, we’re inside the top ten and one of the criteria I’ve been judging some of these […]

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The Worst XI

The Worst XI: The Original Hungarian Disaster

Welcome back to another edition of The Worst XI, the series where you have voted on the worst eleven players to grace the Anfield pitch. If you’ve missed our announcements so far then relive them here: Goalkeeper; Right Back; Centre Back 1; Centre Back 2; Left Back; Right Wing; Centre Midfield 1 and Left Wing. […]

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The Greatest Transfers #10: His Armband Said He Was A Red…

Welcome back to The Greatest Transfers where we continue our countdown of the greatest transfers in Liverpool’s history. As always, you can get up to date on the list (honourable mentions, 15, 14, 13, 12 and 11) by clicking on the links. We enter the top ten this week and it’s a man that still […]

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The Worst XI

The Worst XI: Run Out of Danish Puns

Welcome back to another edition of the Worst XI where we’v collated all your votes and are revealing each player one position at a time. We only have four to go and, this week, we hit the central midfielders. The engine room of a team, the area that makes it tick although if the side […]

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The Greatest Transfers #11: Forever Running

Welcome back to The Greatest Transfers which, by this point, you should know what’s going on here. As ever, if you want to catch up then here are the links to the honourable mentions and numbers 15, 14, 13 and 12. That brings us up to number 11 this week and it’s one of the […]

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The Worst XI

The Worst XI: The Fiat Multipla

Welcome back to another edition of the Worst XI, the series where we try to make the worst XI possible from the dark parts of Liverpool’s past. So far, we have Adam Bogdan in goal; Philipp Degen at right back; Torben Piechnik and Tiago Ilori at the heart of the defence; Paul Konchesky at left […]

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Greatest Transfers #12: The Little Magician

Welcome back to another Greatest Transfers, the series where we countdown the fifteen greatest transfers in the history of Liverpool Football Club. If you missed our honourable mentions, 15, 14 and 13 then I suggest you catch up by clicking the links. We’ve reached number 12, where we find the most recent transfer that will make our […]

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Afternoon Bulletin

Klopp patience, left back talk and a potential departure

Klopp will be patient Jurgen Klopp has said that he’s going to be patient this summer as Liverpool try and land his transfer targets as they gear up for a Champions League and Premier League tilt. Speaking to the official Liverpool website on his return to Melwood for pre-season, the boss said that the club […]

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