Chris Smith
Always Liverpool on Substack. Freelance journalist ✍🏻 bylines with The Guardian and Observer, Wired, and every UK tech site you've ever read. 🎙️ on The Liverpool Way Podcast.
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- Jesus wept.
- Is there anything more tedious in the technology world than the forthcoming release of a Samsung Galaxy S phone?
- Another unnecessary thing to say in a month littered with unnecessary things to say.
- Worst thing about the Super Bowl being in California? The absolute barrage of Red Hot Chili Peppers music we're going to be subjected to.
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- It has properly fucked me the next time I play “never have I ever” too.
- I just “get the fuck in”d a United goal. That’s what those Arsenal cunts have done to me. I don’t like it. I feel like there isn’t enough soap in the world to wash that stink off me.
- Just when you think you’ve seen them score the scabbiest goal of all time they find a way to score a scabbier one.
- So weak. So, so weak.
- Love that we’re selling our best left back ever after that.
- 457 British servicemen and women died in Afghanistan.
- From June:
- Fuck that. Send Slot to Spurs.
- Shame we couldn't just have a place to write.
- Is there anyone in football less deserving of a big reputation than De Zerbi? Goddamn nerds putting him on the pedestal. They're absolutely SHITE.
- Makes me feel icky having to watch a game with that horrible little bastard Greenwood. Nothing ever saw a courtroom, but we all heard the tapes. Don't wanna upset the Arsenal contingent by 'inciting violence' but I hope one of our lads puts him in the stands from kick-off.
- New on Always Liverpool | I miss Jordan Henderson.
- This is the end of Guardiola's Manchester City, isn't it? A proper end-of-an-era game.
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- Cool. Yet another on-the-job learner hired by an owner who never learns. See you right here again in… well, precisely one year later than it should have taken for this new dude to be fired 🫡
- Already can't be arsed with that Will McKenzie-looking Chelsea manager nerd.
- Us too, mate.
- That's a battering. Had the ball in the net five times. Hit the bar. Hit the post. But it should have been 10 vs 11 after ten minutes. Different game then. Cowards.
- They do this often, the PGMOL. Go too far and, when criticised, traverse to the other extreme. "From VAR is too studious, it's spoiling games" to "Well, what's the fucking point in having it?" Never finding the happy medium. That Dalot tackle (and less) has always been a red card in the VAR era.
- The Athletic are the masters of the rhetorical headline. So they can sell them to balance the books in a few years, duh!
- Episode 1 > Everything this bloke’s done in his entire life.
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- Not even that bum could miss that.
- New on Always Liverpool. Deny. Deflect. Accuse the other side of doing the same thing. Dredge up everything, no matter how ancient. Ask “What about?” constantly. Distort the plainest video evidence. The Gooner playbook is unlike anything else in football. But it is reminiscent of one thing...
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- I'm sure there's been another since, but Liverpool vs Barnsley at Anfield gives me a little shudder. November 1997. Liverpool 0 Barnsley 1. Coach broke down on the way home. Stranded in Ellesmere Port for hours in one of the all-time worst pubs I've ever been in. A low point, for sure.
- But.. but… he crawled back on to the pitch! Gutted for him. Seething about Martinelli and kinda shell-shocked by the mental gymnastics that lot have performed in circling the wagons. I’ve only ever seen it on one place before. It’s so MAGA, I’m now convinced JD Vance is an Arsenal fan.
- Unai In.
- Please stop romanticising Wrexham.
- There’s something that doesn’t sit right about having a sixth year college QB. Dude is twenty three.
