I have to admit that I am something of a creature of habit, particularly where technology is involved. If I'm comfortable with how something is working, then I don't really tend to go out to look for ways to improve on it.
It is why I've always stuck to NewsNow.co.uk to get an overview of the latest stories concerning Liverpool. Click to continue reading...

It is fair to say that Paul Tomkins is one of the leading Liverpool writers out there (Brian Reade, Oliver Kay, Tony Barrett and Tony Evans are the others), a reputation built over the years initially on various forums and then on the club's official website. He is also probably the most prolific author of books about Liverpool FC having published some eight books in the space of four years. Click to continue reading...

Ever since former Liverpool striker Dean Saunders took over as manager at Wrexham, I have been following the fortunes of the Welsh club to see how he is doing. In all honesty, it hasn't been a great season for them so far and a season that started off with the hope of promotion is being played out in the bottom half of the Conference. Click to continue reading...

Before Maurizio Pellegrino put on a Liverpool shirt in January 2005, no Argentine footballer had ever played for the club. All that has changed with Rafael Benitez in charge as he has brought in a total of six Argentines over these past five years: Mauricio Pellegrino, Gabriel Palletta, Emiliano Insua, Javier Mascehrano, Sebastian Leto and Gerardo Bruna. Click to continue reading...

It is not often that there's a thread about a journalist on an internet forum, much less one where positive things are said about the writer in question. Yet Tony Barrett now has that 'honour' to his name with threads praising him both on The Liverpool Way and Red and White Kop.
Originally both threads appeared because fans were wondering where he was seeing that he had been absent from the Liverpool Echo for some time. Click to continue reading...

There's a lot of rubbish posted on internet fora, none more so during the transfer window when everybody has an opinion on who Liverpool should by and why the players that Benitez is going to bring in aren't good enough / the missing piece in the puzzle (delete as appropriate).
Occasionally, however, something worth reading sticks out. Click to continue reading...

Come now, admit it, we've all had a laugh at Newcastle every now and then. You can't fail to do so given just how many bad signings they make and how every minor squabble is played out in the open.
Which is why, perhaps, many did not want to see them relegated. That and the fact that they usually guarantee six easy points for Liverpool. Click to continue reading...

I have to admit that I'm not a big fan of goal.com: they're far too interested in spreading (mostly unfounded) rumours to take them seriously.
Yet occasionally they do come up with something that is worth reading. This week's interview with Cadiz youth coach Quique Gonzalez is a case in point.
The piece is of interest because it focuses on recent Liverpool addition Jesus Fernandez. Click to continue reading...

At a time when players are changing clubs for sums in excess of ₤50 and ₤80 million, it is hardly surprising that little notice is given to a transfer that amount to just ₤12 million. Even more so when there are no British club involved.
Yet there is plenty that is noteworthy in Aly Cissokho's move to AC Milan. Click to continue reading...

There seems to be a real upsurge of national interest in the Hillsbrough disaster with a number of documentaries focusing on this tragedy, not least the one on the History channel that is to be screened on the day of the anniversary.
The BBC is also getting in the act, even if only on the radio, with a show to be aired next Sunday on BBC Radio 4 at 11:15am with a repeat on the 17th of April at 9am. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool's results over these past few weeks have given fans that most priceless of gifts: hope.
Hope that Liverpool can win the league. Hope that this team can play the kind of attractive football which is in line with the club's legacy. Hope, above all, that things are indeed getting better. Click to continue reading...

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Looking at which are the most popular articles on this blog, it is clear that there is a certain hunger for information about Liverpool's reserves and academy.
Something that should ensure a fair degree of popularity for The Academy blog. Updated regularly, apart from reports it includes profiles of academy players past and present. Click to continue reading...

Looking at which are the most popular articles on this blog, it is clear that there is a certain hunger for information about Liverpool's reserves and academy.
Something that should ensure a fair degree of popularity for The Academy blog. Updated regularly, apart from reports it includes profiles of academy players past and present. Click to continue reading...

Book Review: You'll Win Nothing With Kids by Jim White
As soon as I turned over the first page of this book, not only was I informed that the author was a Manchester United fan but also that he counted a book called 'Are you watching Liiverpool' among his earlier works. Not the best of starts, you'll agree. Click to continue reading...

Book Review: You'll Win Nothing With Kids by Jim White
As soon as I turned over the first page of this book, not only was I informed that the author was a Manchester United fan but also that he counted a book called 'Are you watching Liiverpool' among his earlier works. Not the best of starts, you'll agree. Click to continue reading...

I've always been eager to know what's happening in every corner of the world of football. As a kid that meant religiously buying World Soccer each month where the knowledge of writers like Brian Glanville and Gavin Hamilton used to fascinate me.
The internet eventually became the main source of information and it was much more timely: you got to know what was happening by the end of the weekend rather than the following month. Click to continue reading...

I've always been eager to know what's happening in every corner of the world of football. As a kid that meant religiously buying World Soccer each month where the knowledge of writers like Brian Glanville and Gavin Hamilton used to fascinate me.
The internet eventually became the main source of information and it was much more timely: you got to know what was happening by the end of the weekend rather than the following month. Click to continue reading...

Last week, Liverpool were linked with a move for Brazilian striker Keirrison and, although the link seems a bit spurious, I thought that the name sounded familiar.
So I looked around a bit and, true enough, found that last month I had linked to a post on the Pitaco do Gringa's blog about the most promising Brazilian players around. Click to continue reading...

How do you keep abreast of what is happening in the world of football? For me it is a mix of NewsNow and RSS feeds from my favourite sites.
It is a system that I find works well for me yet there could be a better solution if Football Filter lives up to its promise.
The plan for Football Filter is quite ambitious as it aims to provide the same news spidering service as NewsNow but with added insight: whereas on other services you only get the headlines, here you can also se the first couple of sentences of each article you roll your mouse over helping you avoid clicking on to stories with an interesting title but that are effectively of little interest. Click to continue reading...

Rafael Benitez has never hidden his admiration for South American players. Argentines were at the core of his Valencia side but at Liverpool it is to Brazil that he is turning to with increasing regularity. The surprise arrival of Vitor Flora means that there are now four Brazilians in Liverpool's first team squad (Flora, Fabio Aurelio, Lucas Leiva and Diego Cavalieri).

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As far as I'm aware there aren't that many football podcasts, certainly not a lot of good ones. The one that comes out of the BBC World Football Phone-In tends to be very good whilst the ones that are done by the Times and the Guardian have their good moments but far too often try too hard to be funny. Click to continue reading...

The Serie A kicked off yesterday with Inter, now featuring our old friend Jose Mourinho, being held to a 1-1 draw by Sampdoria. Italian football's reputation has taken something of a battering in recent years, but with five clubs all with reasonable hopes of winning the league, it is bound to be an exciting season. Click to continue reading...

Have you ever found yourself at a newsagent wondering whether to buy a magazine or not? Often there's an alluring article that you desperately want to read but that doesn't mean that you want to fork out for the whole magazine. As often happens, there is now a solution on-line.
Mygazines allows its users to share whole magazines. Click to continue reading...

What do footballers get up to once they retire? Once it was a pretty straightforward choice between finding a way into football management, going to work in a factory or else buying a pub, with the ultimate decision depending largely on how much money any testimonial had managed to raise.
These days players, at least those lucky enough to spend some time in the Premiership, have no such problems. Click to continue reading...

I'm not one for official merchandise. Not, I have to add, because of some moral stance against the club's ownership but rather because too often it is bland and uninspiring not to mention overpriced and with inflated postage charges.
Findng an alternative on-line, however, isn't always easy. Click to continue reading...