
Why Antonio Conte is a “special kind of coach” – and how he turned Chelsea into table toppers
“He is a manager the players love to play for”
9 years ago

Tony Barrett

“He is a manager the players love to play for”
9 years ago

He is prepared to wait for the right opportunity
9 years ago

At last – some push back to the sanctimonious, holier-than-thou brigade
9 years ago

Another missed opportunity for Arsene Wenger.
9 years ago

Liverpool’s situation isn’t the same as when other key players left for Spain
9 years ago

“I was quite small. I was just three years old so my memories are mainly of playing with other kids. We would be outside picking the carrots out of the ground and things like that, the kind of stuff that was normal for children who grew up in ordinary places all over the world. But my […]
9 years ago

The club are weighing up their options with Sadio Mane away on international duty in January.
9 years ago

They looked unstoppable against Watford
9 years ago

The success in the 1960s, 70s and 80s was built on promotion from within
9 years ago

The real question is how it became such a contentious issue
9 years ago

The Dutchman might be playing a very clever game here
10 years ago

Tony Barrett investigates the move that looked doomed from the start
10 years ago

There is still so much to do to eradicate homophobia from the game.
10 years ago

A winning formula…
10 years ago

Stalemate at Anfield
10 years ago

What might have been
10 years ago

“All of those nasty, dark feelings were gone instantly”
10 years ago

This week marks exactly a year since he took the Anfield hotseat.
10 years ago

“All of this stuff about having been a Liverpool fan – I just wasn’t buying it”
10 years ago

He spoke to Tony Barrett in a wide-ranging interview
10 years ago

Liverpool’s new goalkeeper is yet to convince
10 years ago

The Saipan showdown happened nearly 15 years ago.
10 years ago

“I kept having these thoughts like ‘Fuck it, I can’t be arsed any more’. “I was driving through the Mersey tunnel this day and the cars on the other side of the road are heading towards me and I just thought ‘If I just give it one of them right now and go right across […]
10 years ago

The responsibility for due diligence and vetting rests squarely on their shoulders
10 years ago

Pretty much everyone else in football disagreed – but he was convinced
10 years ago

A sign of things to come?
10 years ago

The Reds have made more money from player sales than any other club in Europe
10 years ago

He knows that such allegations are designed to send a message
10 years ago

There was only one winner in the battle between manager and agent
10 years ago

“I always felt it was important for us to have competition right the way through the squad, and that includes the goalkeepers. We’ve got great competition and when you’ve got competition it pushes everyone to perform.” Brendan Rodgers, July 2013. Simon Mignolet knows better than most what competition means. When he joined Liverpool from Sunderland […]
10 years ago

Has he lost whatever it was that made him special?
10 years ago

Treating him mean, or at least not indulging him, is keeping him keen
10 years ago

Age is not an issue for Arsenal but progress quite clearly is
10 years ago

He never quite cracked it with Liverpool
10 years ago

Pep vs Jose, who Leicester are missing most, and Liverpool’s new key man
10 years ago

In one sense, it is only a new stand; an architectural triumph rather than a sporting one. It may allow 8,500 more people to watch but they will still be watching the same team. The real significance of Liverpool’s impressively renovated Main Stand, though, is to be found in what it represents. For the first […]
10 years ago

The former Liverpool number one offers up his thoughts on Joe Hart and more
10 years ago

Fear of making a mistake has put referees in no man’s land – now they cannot win
10 years ago

Having spent much of the previous 25 years acquiring left backs of various levels of inadequacy, in the most recent transfer window Liverpool came up with a radical approach to dealing with their problem position for a generation by signing none. The concern caused by a weakness going unaddressed was as predictable as it was understandable but no one should […]
10 years ago