West Brom will arrive at Anfield this Monday evening with the worst run of form currently in the Premier League. An unenviable streak of eight games without a win has seen the Baggies plummet down the table and into 9th…
Tag Archive for Kenny Dalglish
A Building Block for Brendan Rodgers at Liverpool: the Defence
by Michael Kline • July 29, 2012 • 9 Comments
Offense wins games, defence wins championships. Everyone is aware of the aforementioned quote, and the most successful clubs in the world abide by its message. It’s a simple idea, yet the significance of a reliable defense simply cannot be understated…
Why NOT signing Gylfi Sigurdsson is a statement of intent from Brendan Rodgers and Liverpool
by Dave Hendrick • July 12, 2012 • 12 Comments
In the latest of what is sure to be a summer full of sagas, Gylfi Sigurdsson announced his decision to sign for Tottenham Hotspur rather than Liverpool who had initially seemed the short odds favourite to secure the signature of…
Was there ever reason to believe that Liverpool’s “Buy British” Policy would work?
by Michael Luscombe • June 19, 2012 • 2 Comments
In the summer of 2011, Kenny Dalglish and Damien Comolli sanctioned a numbers of deals for British players, and players that had Premier League experience, in the hope that they would settle in more quickly than foreign alternatives. Clearly, it…
The Price of Liverpool’s History
by John Galloway • June 7, 2012 • 0 Comments
Recently, I had a conversation with a Newcastle United fan who made the following statement: “Kenny Dalglish deserved the sack as he has done nothing for Liverpool since he returned”. This got me thinking about just how much the media…
Liverpool FC and the Managerial Merry-Go-Round
by Matt Dalton • May 31, 2012 • 6 Comments
As the season drew to a close and speculation mounted about the future of both Liverpool FC and Kenny Dalglish, I found myself in a strange predicament. Usually, I am pretty concrete in my decision making and I either want…
Stewart Downing, Andy Carroll and Jordan Henderson: Too Big to Fail?
by Mohamed Al-Hendy • May 29, 2012 • 5 Comments
In the world of global economics, there exists the concept that certain corporations or entities are “too big to fail.” The reasoning is that while a (relatively) free market may indeed exist in countries like the United States and the…
New Liverpool Manager: Pros and Cons of a Rafa Benitez Return
by Mohamed Al-Hendy • May 18, 2012 • 4 Comments
First, it started as a joke. Why would Liverpool ever bring back the man who they sacked after an abysmal 7th place finish in the Premier League? That’s not even mentioning his dreadful spell with Inter Milan, where he lasted…
Kenny Dalglish Sacked: FSG Must Work Hard and Fast to Make Liverpool a Desirable Job
by Karl Matchett • May 16, 2012 • 2 Comments
Liverpool Football Club have sacked Kenny Dalglish. The sentence perhaps needs reading more than once to make it clear, absolutely and unequivocally crystal clear, that one of the world’s biggest football clubs have actually fired their most revered, loved and…
Liverpool and Kenny Dalglish: Why Now is Not the Time to Make Major Changes
by Karl Matchett • April 22, 2012 • 8 Comments
Frustration, disbelief, cynicism, defeatism and deja vu—it seems every Liverpool fan must have fallen into one of those categories following the defeat at Anfield to West Bromwich Albion, giving a successful return to the ground for Roy Hodgson. There’s no…