Nostalgia
Liverpool Squad Numbers: The Number 21
Today’s squad number is a slightly obscure one. The number 21 isn’t one that is steeped in history at Liverpool Football Club, nor did it become synonymous with a certain legend during the invincible years. But over the last decade there has been one Brazilian quietly going about his business with the XXI on his […]
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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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Where Are They Now? Oussama Assaidi
In his first transfer window as Liverpool manager, Brendan Rodgers shopped low-key, bringing in either young players who he hoped would shoot to stardom or more proven talents entering the prime of their careers. Among the younger brigade was a little-known Moroccan by the name of Oussama Assaidi, who arrived from Dutch club Heerenveen a […]
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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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Liverpool Squad Numbers: The Number 5
This week we focus on the number five shirt, a digit that has been represented all over the field. From Mark Wright, the towering centre-back, not the reality TV “star”, all the way through to a certain Czech striker up top. To fill in the gap between the two, current holder Georginio Wijnaldum has embedded […]
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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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Where Are They Now? – David Ngog
When a footballer is described as a divisive player, it generally refers to the wide polarisation of esteem in which they are held by their club’s supporters. A player who is regarded as a demigod by one fan could be on the ‘I’d drive them to their next club’ list of another. David Ngog, who […]
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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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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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