It’s the 96th minute and Liverpool are losing 2-1 to Chelsea at home. Suddenly, Sturridge teas up Suarez who heads home from close range to which the Kop goes into frenzy. Celebrations begin as yet again, Liverpool foil Chelsea in…
Last week Rafa Benitez professed his love for Liverpool Football Club and declared “I have no doubt I will marry… Manage Liverpool again.” Was it a mistranslation or a well placed hint reminding John W. Henry—I’m here, ready and waiting?…
Patience, we are told, is a virtue. However, it is a virtue that society seemingly has no time for anymore. In an age of 24-hour rolling news channels and Twitter, people want, and expect, news immediately. Football, and in particular…
It’s very easy to get carried away with a player like Daniel Sturridge. It’s equally easy to get frustrated. Barely three months have passed since the English centre forward acquainted himself with the Anfield faithful, and already he has taken them to…
I am 21 years old and I am Irish. I was not born when the Hillsborough Disaster unfolded back on that April day in 1989. In fact, my only link to the city of Liverpool is that some time in…
Life is a culmination of choices made, and chances taken. The odds on mere existence are infinitesimal. Every day decisions are made and the numbers land in or against our favour. Maybe the only thing less likely than history to…
Ahhh Summer…History suggests it once contained sunshine, and that temperatures soared past 12 degrees almost every day. Summer was also the time you reminisced about the season gone by and smiled, thinking of the season ahead. In recent times you’ve…
Liverpool bagged themselves a new transfer signing in January who made an immediate impact—but injuries and muscle strains have quickly prevented Daniel Sturridge from emphasising his potential importance to the team by preventing a run of matches in the starting…
February 7th, 2013. Over 16 years had passed since a young Jamie Carragher first pulled on the red of Liverpool. After 11 trophies, more than 700 appearances and countless memories, it was time. February 7th, 2013: The day Jamie Carragher…
The Liverpool Word is delighted and honoured to have spoken to a real legend of Liverpool FC of yesteryear, none other than the former midfielder and three-times European Cup-winning great, Jimmy Case. Case played 269 times for the Reds between…
