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4 weeks ago | 
thisisanfield.com | Tim Ellis |Timothy Donal Ellis
Arne Slot is doing this the wrong way around. He was never supposed to hit the ground running at Liverpool. Once he did, the elevation of expectation was extraordinary. The runaway Reds were the best thing in town – there was no nuance. Liverpool were on for a quadruple, as headline-writers suffered from a rush of blood to the head. Slot could control the narrative as long as it was a fairytale, but football is no such thing.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
rantsports.com | Tim Ellis
Jurgen Klopp once jokingly called himself a “world record-holder in winning semi-finals.” After destroying Tottenham in the Premier League, Arne Slot and Liverpool have a real chance of progressing to Wembley when the two clubs meet in the first leg of the Carabao Cup semi-finals on Wednesday. Slot has some major boots to fill in respect of Klopp’s last four success…. A memorable comeback against his old club Dortmund booked a semi-final place against the Yellow Submarine.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
goalkeeper.com | Tim Ellis
The ups and downs of goalkeeping have always required a strong mind. Access to mental health expertise can be crucial in managing the loneliest position on and off the pitch. Goalkeepers are in the most intense profession even when they are a bystander. Being present in the moment on the pitch needs a switch always on standby. If a number one isn’t engaged they might, literally, drop the ball when the time comes for action.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
goalkeeper.com | Tim Ellis
This Remembrance Sunday stirs memories of two Welsh goalkeepers who served in the two World Wars. They died over 100 years apart, but their fate had striking similarities…Although an FA panel found Crystal Palace’s Wayne Hennessey not guilty of knowingly making a Nazi salute during a team bonding meal in 2019, their written missive sent a powerful message.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
goalkeeper.com | Tim Ellis
Alan Kelly had a father who also played football at club and international level. He’s coached England’s best but knows that everyone who steps between the posts has the same hopes and fears. Last March, Alan Kelly reached the magic figure of 1,000 professional football games combining a playing career and a coaching one. Almost half of those were between the posts for Preston, Sheffield United and Blackburn Rovers.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
goalkeeper.com | Tim Ellis
Jack Cudworth has known club football all of his career, having coached Sam Johnstone and Jordan Pickford, but jumped at the chance to coach Chinese Taipei. The Chinese Taipei Football Association is a century old in 2024 and its current national team stands 166th in the men’s FIFA rankings sandwiched between Myanmar and Cuba. If that set of bare statistics doesn’t mean much to the casual onlooker, then it was probably quite the challenge for their new goalkeeping coach Jack Cudworth.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
goalkeeper.com | Tim Ellis
The Player Care Group provides support for football players, focusing on personal development, welfare, and off-field organisation. How does this work relate to goalkeepers? When Sean Dyche discussed the five-substitute proposal in the Premier League back in 2021, the focus was solely on how it affected the squad on the pitch. “I was thinking of people like Frank Lampard, season after season knocking out 60-odd games with England games on top.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
goalkeeper.com | Tim Ellis
The ex-goalkeeper and current pundit talks through a life and times, and what ‘made him’ as a goalkeeper…Header Image: via West Ham UnitedYou can take the man out of the Caribbean but you can’t take the Caribbean out of the man, so the adapted (North American) saying goes. Shaka Hislop’s 15-year career was almost played out entirely in England. He was born in Hackney, East London but spent most of his formative years in the place that he calls home, Trinidad and Tobago.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
thisisanfield.com | Tim Ellis |Timothy Donal Ellis
Arne Slot knows he will be afforded a level of leniency in his first season at Liverpool, but he will be just as aware of what a strong start can inspire. Just over ten years ago, Brendan Rodgers’ Liverpool team finished their campaign like an express train with 12 wins from the last 14 games. In old money, that was a fantastic achievement. Famously, it wasn’t quite enough as the Reds stumbled in two of their final three matches to cede the title to an imperfect Man City. It still sucks.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
thisisanfield.com | Tim Ellis |Timothy Donal Ellis
The tagline of the recent Wimbledon Championships was ‘Always Like Never Before’. There’s something compelling about that mantra, especially through a Liverpool lens. It captures the essence of an event that can be relied upon to provide new stars, hit new heights and elicit new feelings. On the other hand, change is uncomfortable.
