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Liverpool 4-0 Stoke City: The Reds Backlash

Tony Pulis warned his team about a Liverpool backlash following their disappointing 2-1 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur on opening day, and he was right to be concerned. Against Spurs, he watched a disjointed Reds struggling for form and understanding...

Written by David Gore about 3 months ago 471 reads 7 comments
An Open Letter to Real Madrid Fans

Normal 0 Before I begin, let me just own up to the fact that I never liked your team. While I was growing up, Real were the first of the financial juggernauts, throwing around money, bankrolled by the King of Spain, wielding an axe to catch a fly...

Written by David Gore about 5 months ago 521 reads 29 comments
Rafael Benitez Is the Right Man For Liverpool

So, it’s summer again, and as I write this I have sunburn. The redness on my arms is a sure sign that it’s time to evaluate Liverpool’s season once again...

Written by David Gore about 6 months ago 198 reads 18 comments
Sami Hyypia: Mr. Liverpool

When Robbie Fowler was bundled out of Anfield by Gerard Houllier in 2001, I was shocked. When Michael Owen left in 2005, I felt let down. When Fowler finally got his proper goodbye with Rafa Benitez in 2007, I was saddened...

Written by David Gore about 6 months ago 367 reads 10 comments
Roy Hodgson: Diamond In The Rough

Over the last decade or so, the debate on English managers has been sparked off by every period of a vacant English hot seat. In 2000, when Sven-Goran Eriksson was appointed, the public wanted to know where all the great up-and-coming Englishmen were...

Written by David Gore about 6 months ago 158 reads 17 comments
Rafael Benitez: The Transfer Truth

We’re always being told about Rafael Benitez’s poor transfer record. I’ve already commented repeatedly on his lack of funds in his time at Liverpool, and the fact that he’s ...

Written by David Gore about 7 months ago 6,449 reads 35 comments
Liverpool and Manchester United: The Past and the Future

To be a Liverpool fan is often to be accused of living in the past. Since the end of Liverpool's domination of the league (timed closely to the beginning of the Premier League era), the Reds ...

Written by David Gore about 7 months ago 1,313 reads 46 comments
Phil Gartside Scores the Own Goal, Again

On Oct. 23 last year, I responded to statements by Phil Gartside, the Bolton Wanderers chief, on his novel ideas for the restructuring of the English league system...

Written by David Gore about 7 months ago 188 reads 12 comments
The Dark Cloud Of Hillsborough

The clock said 14:55, and the woman could see I was watching it. She was a grey-haired lady with a peculiar mix of an accent, there to talk to me about extra training I’m scheduled to do at work...

Written by David Gore about 7 months ago 147 reads 6 comments
English Football Clubs and Countries: Pick A Side

My first real memory of international football is way back in 1998.My school, bowing to student and teacher pressure, decided to show England's matches of Euro '98 in the assembly hall, and we all dropped lessons for 90 minutes each time to see it...

Written by David Gore about 8 months ago 174 reads 12 comments
Liverpool Cure Glasgow Syndrome

In trying to narrow down the way this title race is progressing, I think it’s important to explain something about how the British sports fan thinks...

Written by David Gore about 8 months ago 389 reads 25 comments
No One Likes Rafael Benitez, But We Don't Care

The great American poet Allen Ginsberg once said that, "Whoever controls the media—the images—controls the culture." Admittedly, that's a lofty start to a sports article, but in writing about Rafael Benitez, I thought it strangely apt...

Written by David Gore about 8 months ago 1,000 reads 33 comments
A Winter of Discontent: The Robbie Keane Story

It’s odd how words gain new meanings over time. For example, “collider,” once meant an ill-fated object about to cause untold destruction by smashing into something else...

Written by David Gore about 10 months ago 714 reads 11 comments
Football Pundits: Harmless or Harmful?

The above picture is of Mark Lawrenson. It was included it to remind everyone, before I begin, that he was once a great player and a fantastic ambassador for Liverpool Football Club...

Written by David Gore about 11 months ago 206 reads 19 comments
Liverpool and Valencia: The Rafael Benitez Parallel

On 5 May 2002, Rafael Benitez led his Valencia team out at La Rosaleda. The team had been locked away in the days prior to the game, meeting no one and conducting no interviews...

Written by David Gore about 11 months ago 844 reads 3 comments
Rafael Benitez: Freedom of the Press?

At work, in between actually working, I tend to check the sports pages for the latest stories. When I did that today, on the Sky Sports website, I read about Rafael Benitez apparently dismissing ...

Written by David Gore about 11 months ago 442 reads 5 comments
Xabi Alonso Is Owed an Apology

I have a confession. You see, I'm a Liverpool fan and at the start of the season, I was disappointed that Alonso, and not Barry, would be lining up in midfield. Before you all gasp in horror, let me just explain...

Written by David Gore about 12 months ago 395 reads 13 comments
St. Michael: G-Owen Home?

On the day Michael Owen's transfer to Real Madrid was confirmed, I was reminded of all the bad feeling I got when Robbie Fowler left...

Written by David Gore about about 1 year ago 148 reads 10 comments
Arsenal Will Never Surrender

There's been a lot of negativity about Arsenal in the past week, and I think it needs something inspirational to occur to level it out...

Written by David Gore about about 1 year ago 340 reads 3 comments
The Wenger Bus is Coming

So, Arsene Wenger saw this one, did he? The legendary Mr Magoo has felt the need to stoke the mob fires of national fervour by calling for clubs to be investigated for withdrawing players from international duty...

Written by David Gore about about 1 year ago 467 reads 10 comments
Liverpool: The Season So Far

Can Liverpool win the title this season? That's the question that everyone's asking. I don't know the answers, no one does, but I do understand something about the season so far...

Written by David Gore about about 1 year ago 659 reads 5 comments
Liverpool FC: Could It Be?

Often the only things I'm ever right about are the most pessimistic of my predictions. Whenever I show absolutely no faith in something, I'm usually depressingly correct, but as soon as I show ...

Written by David Gore about about 1 year ago 755 reads 11 comments
Gartside and the Great FA Own Goal

What usually happens when the Football Association is questioned, is they hide under a duvet and wait until the next big issue arises, when they can make a fool of themselves again...

Written by David Gore about about 1 year ago 78 reads 0 comments
The New Revival of Liverpool FC

No one can doubt the argument that a few wins doesn't mean success. Few would seriously argue that the current Liverpool squad is the greatest in the club's history...

Written by David Gore about about 1 year ago 531 reads 11 comments
The History Behind the Real "Football"

While I was watching a game today, I heard a debate between an American and an Englishman as to which country's national sport, "football", is the true football...

Written by David Gore about about 1 year ago 418 reads 4 comments

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David Gore Article Archive

Liverpool 4-0 Stoke City: The Reds Backlash

An Open Letter to Real Madrid Fans

Rafael Benitez Is the Right Man For Liverpool

Sami Hyypia: Mr. Liverpool

Roy Hodgson: Diamond In The Rough

Rafael Benitez: The Transfer Truth

Liverpool and Manchester United: The Past and the Future

Phil Gartside Scores the Own Goal, Again

The Dark Cloud Of Hillsborough

English Football Clubs and Countries: Pick A Side

Liverpool Cure Glasgow Syndrome

No One Likes Rafael Benitez, But We Don't Care

A Winter of Discontent: The Robbie Keane Story

Football Pundits: Harmless or Harmful?

Liverpool and Valencia: The Rafael Benitez Parallel

Rafael Benitez: Freedom of the Press?

Xabi Alonso Is Owed an Apology

St. Michael: G-Owen Home?

Arsenal Will Never Surrender

The Wenger Bus is Coming

Liverpool: The Season So Far

Liverpool FC: Could It Be?

Gartside and the Great FA Own Goal

The New Revival of Liverpool FC

The History Behind the Real "Football"

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