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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
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Originally published on The Anfield Wrap.
Christian Benteke’s move to Liverpool is all but sealed, with Brendan Rodgers finally landing a player who, by many accounts, he’s coveted for years. After a dreadful season featuring an anemic attack unrecognizable from the Luis Suarez-led unit that once dominated the Premier League, Rodgers has signed a player he believes will get his team back among the goals — and all for a cool £32.5 million. Continue reading
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Originally published on Premier Punditry.
Forget the premature reports of Liverpool Football Club’s demise — the sort of reports my fellow contributors, and a good deal of Premier League pundits out there at large, are all too willing to revel in. Liverpool will persevere as it always has; whatever the current travails on the pitch, they are nothing we won’t overcome, because this is a massive club that has success ingrained in its very fiber. Doomsayers can doom-say all they want; we survived Hicks and Gillett and the Roy Hodgson era. We can cope with a 0-3 defeat at home to the champions of Europe. Continue reading
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Originally published on The Anfield Wrap.
No outfield player at Liverpool Football Club has played more minutes through the first eight weeks of the season than Raheem Sterling. Not the inexhaustible Jordan Henderson, nor the preferred centre-back pairing of Dejan Lovren and Martin Skrtel. At the age of 19 – when most of us were sleeping in through class and making all sorts of mistakes we’d rather forget – he’s become an indispensable asset to one of the biggest sporting institutions in the world. Continue reading
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Originally published on Premier Punditry.
I used to admire the England national team. It’s my duty as an American soccer fan to provide unequivocal backing to the USMNT every time a major international tournament like the World Cup rolls around, but, until recently, England could always claim second place in my allegiances. Continue reading
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