• Liverpool, Klopp and Why The Reds Should Focus On Cup Competitions This Term

    Saturday’s FA Cup Fourth Round pitted Liverpool against West Ham, in one of the few all-Premier League ties at this stage of the competition. Jurgen Klopp’s decision to play a team boasting a plethora of young talent and resting first-team players such as Roberto Firmino, James Milner and Jordan...
  • Bye Bye Brendan: What he leaves behind at Liverpool

    Three years, £300 million, no trophies. The stark reality of Brendan Rodgers’ time as Liverpool boss makes for grim reading. Anyone who knows football, of course, knows that the story could well have been very different. It is a mark of just how apathetic the fans and Liverpool owners,...
  • Big Spenders and Freebies: Top Transfers of the Summer

    With the transfer window closed until January, Impact Sport looks at their top transfer signings of the summer. Andre Ayew – Marseille to Swansea City (Free) Who would have thought that Swansea City would have been able to replace Wilfried Bony less than six months after losing him to...
  • Is Brendan Rodgers Still The Right Man For Liverpool?

    For most teams, an FA Cup semi-final appearance and a near guaranteed place in European football for next season, having sold your best player in the summer, would be seen as rather successful. However, Liverpool’s failure to overcome Aston Villa in the FA Cup semi on Sunday leaves Brendan...
  • EUROSEPTIC: ENGLISH TRAVAILS IN EUROPE

    This is an obituary that has been a few weeks in the making. With Manchester City’s departure last night, it was finally confirmed that there will be no English clubs in the quarter finals of this year’s Champions League. It’s the second time in three years this has occurred...
  • How Luis Suárez Has Settled into Barçelona

    When Barcelona signed Luis Suárez last year, few people imagined his scoring performance to be so poor by now. His five goals in 16 matches do not quite meet the expectations of Catalonian fans or the board of directors after his fantastic last two seasons at Liverpool. There are many...
  • Out Of Fashion: Pellegrini, Martinez and Rodgers

    The phrase ‘second season syndrome’ is a cliché that is all too easy to resort to, but this Premier League season has had a knack of punishing those teams and managers who were extremely fashionable 12 months ago. Manuel Pellegrini, Roberto Martinez and Brendan Rodgers were strong contenders for...