Liverpool 1-2 Chelsea: Notes on a Robbery

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Photo: Andrew Yates/Reuters

Liverpool are out of the League Cup tonight, but that’s not the part I’m livid about. You can keep the League Cup at this point. It’s the last trophy the Reds have won, back in 2012. They could win it a hundred times in the next hundred years, and if they haven’t found a way to win the Premier League or the European Cup as well in the meantime, I’ll have thought it all for naught. Continue reading

Summer of Discontent: Liverpool’s Annual Transfer Window Debacle

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Originally published on Business of Soccer, July 2013.

If you’re fortunate enough to support an elite European soccer club for which money is no object, July is a wonderful time. The summer transfer window should be an occasion brimming with optimism, when fans can follow their team retool its personnel and load up on assets for the upcoming campaign. Continue reading