Emlyn Hughes

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Liverpool’s players with the Champions League trophy on board a parade bus in Liverpool, England. Photograph: Nigel Roddis/Getty Images
Liverpool’s transformation complete as Klopp delivers on his promise

Jürgen Klopp predicted one title within four years on his first full day as Liverpool manager in October 2015. He never promised it would be pretty b(...)

Liverpool’s Jordan Henderson warms up with team-mates during a training session at Anfield on Monday ahead of Saturday’s Champions League final against Real Madrid in Kiev. Photograph: Jan Kruger/Getty Images
Jordan Henderson: ‘We have to be brave’ in Kiev

The mood in the Liverpool team hotel was understandably bleak following defeat by Sevilla in the 2016 Europa League final. Players were allowed to dri(...)

Jürgen Klopp thanks the Liverpool fans after reaching the Champions League final at the Stadio Olimpico, Rome.Photograph: Steven Paston/PA Wire
Jürgen Klopp’s thrash-metal style strikes a chord with English ideal

According to Benjamin Disraeli Rome symbolises the ideal of conquest. Not quite yet, it doesn’t. Liverpool may have earned their moments of unbound jo(...)

Graeme Souness: “You don’t get to 64 years old and not want to change something. I made a few mistakes.” Photograph: Tom Honan
Graeme Souness: I think all my best years are ahead of me. How lucky am I?

Archie Gemmill called you “a chocolate soldier”. “He did.” As in, if you were chocolate, you’d eat yourself? “Yes.” Were you offended by that? “N(...)

Wayne Rooney is held off by Luis Suarez at Anfield in 2011. Photograph: John Peters/Man Utd via Getty Images
Liverpool v United: A look back at some memorable encounters

Liverpool host arch-rivals Manchester United at Anfield on Saturday. Here’s a look back at some memorable encounters on Merseyside between England’s (...)

Jason Dunford: Says Barry Bennell had access to hundreds upon hundreds of children. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian
Sexual abuse in English soccer: Barry Bennell tried to ‘destroy me’

I was Barry Bennell’s captain when I was a kid. He was the Pied Piper, like everyone says, and the most amazing football coach I’ve ever seen. There w(...)