Results tagged “Derby” from Liverpool Echo - Gwlad Tidings

AS this thrilling season goes down to the proverbial wire, the stadium debate has also quietly moved into a pivotal phase.
With Knowsley council’s planning decision looming on the horizon - and then the all-important Government call-in response - it will hopefully be sooner rather than later when we know if The Kirkby Project is going to happen.

PRIDE is more difficult to swallow than ever in this antagonised, ultra-sensitive new derby era.
But it’s our turn to gulp it down after a no-show at Anfield from which we rightly emerged empty-handed.

HERE we are then, on the eve of the most significant derby for a few years.
It’s extremely likely the winner will push on to Champion’s League qualification and the big, fat wheelbarrow full of cash it entails.

SOMETIMES it really does seem like there’s nobody better.
I’ve banged on before about my adoration of "the best little Spaniard we know", your friend and mine, “Go ed there Arteta lad�.

OPINIONS often carry more weight than facts in sport.
And derby day always triggers more opinions then you can shake Rafa Benitez’s neck at, but here are two simple, unadorned facts just for the hell of it.

IT WOULD seem it’s not only Alan Stubbs who has got foot-in-mouth fever before the big game tomorrow.
Despite legions of smug Reds smirking at Stubb’s goading, one of their own has had a pop (admittedly in his recently released book, but he must have agreed the timing of these quotes).