It was September of last year when Brendan Rodgers took to the media, publicly commenting on the performances of Stewart Downing and his future at the club. He urged the embattled winger to show “commitment to the cause”, to “fight”…
If knowledge is power, then those that ask questions are forever trying to arm themselves for the future. To seek out solutions that may never be found for problems which could never be encountered; the quest for understanding is a…
Liverpool delivered the kind of sweet sumptuous football Brendan Rodgers has been promising against Wigan on Saturday, picking up a fantastic 3-0 win to add a rare Anfield victory and 3 points to a performance that deserved just as much.…
Liverpool winger Raheem Sterling, quite rightly, has received an awful lot of plaudits this season after he has forced himself into the starting 11, keeping out far more experienced players, most notably Stewart Downing. Clearly, something is not quite right…
Brendan Rodgers’ first competitive match in charge of Liverpool got off to a winning start as the Reds beat FC Gomel 1-0 at the Central Stadion in Belarus. Stewart Downing’s 67th minute piledriver gave them the important away goal to…
Welcome back to The Liverpool Word’s four-part feature, 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 take one area of…
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…
Euro 2012 kicks off tomorrow and Liverpool will be well represented at the tournament in Poland and the Ukraine, with a total of eight players having been picked to feature for their respective countries. Of course, the bulk of those…
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…
