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…
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A Parting Gift: Into Europe but out of Liverpool for some players
by Kealan McGuinness • March 6, 2013 • 0 Comments
Silverware has passed Liverpool by this season but finishing as high as possible in the league still remains an important goal. The disappointing, yet encouraging, Europa League defeat against Zenit ensured Liverpool’s best-case scenario is a top six finish. If…
Pepe Reina: One howler too many?
by Narasimha Rao • February 9, 2013 • 0 Comments
There was a time when Pepe Reina was considered to be the very best goalkeeper that the Premier League offered. Confident on the ball, aerially assured, with a knack for saving penalties, he is also very famous for his excellent…
Who Should Start in Goal vs Young Boys, Reina or Jones?
by Michael Luscombe • November 22, 2012 • 0 Comments
Over the last couple of seasons it has been no secret that Pepe Reina’s form has become something of an issue for Liverpool. Perhaps not a really pressing issue, given the lack of strikers the club possess, but an issue…
Time for Reina’s return?
by Tom N-Jones • November 10, 2012 • 0 Comments
For the first time in almost 10 years, Liverpool have a goalkeeping conundrum. Jerzy Dudek’s early Christmas gifts for Diego Forlan, in December of 2002, were part of a wobble in form that led then manager Gerard Houllier to announce…
Liverpool stars Martin Skrtel, Luis Suarez and Pepe Reina potential casualties of International Break, England trio still in limbo
by SWOL - Soccer WithOut Limits • October 17, 2012 • 2 Comments
International football is nowhere near as revered as it used to be. World Cups and European Championships were showcases for the best players in the world and the only time you’d ever really see a collection of superstars coming together.…
We Need To Talk About Pepe
by Stuart Quigley • September 13, 2012 • 2 Comments
For years, they train. Day after day spending a countless amount of hours at the gym. A professional footballer these days will need to have his body in as close to peak condition as is possible. But all that effort…
The Invisible Armband: Liverpool’s Vice Captaincy
by Stuart Quigley • July 1, 2012 • 2 Comments
Men have gathered together – from the dawn of time – and looked toward a figurehead. Placing a solitary figure at the head of a cause does more than make it easier to give orders, it gives them a purpose.…
Will the arrival of Brendan Rodgers lead to a return to form for Pepe Reina?
by Chris Haroun • June 20, 2012 • 0 Comments
Out of all the positions, who would want to be a goalkeeper? Alone amongst most footballers, they’re defined by their mistakes and it takes them a while to rectify them. Jose Manuel ‘Pepe’ Reina has been always been considered a…
Liverpool Squad Analysis: Goalkeepers
by Michael Luscombe • June 14, 2012 • 0 Comments
Welcome to the first of a four-part series on The Liverpool Word, taking a tactical and pragmatical view of Liverpool’s entire squad and assessing which players and positions will need the most attention under Brendan Rodgers. Four writers from TLW will each…