- 1. Free to Ayre
- (Media)
- Steve Davies says that dividing TV deals unequally would make football less competitive but it could also be a legal minefield Ian Ayre, the managing director of Liverpool, quickly qualified his reported ...
- Created on 21 December 2011
- 2. Football’s Giant Killers ...
- (General)
- ... Korea. Of the 16 nations who reached the finals of the 1966 World Cup, the Asian outsiders were the obvious candidates for newspaper descriptions along the lines of “plucky” or “surprise package”. And ...
- Created on 18 February 2010
- 3. Christian spirit ...
- (Players)
- ... a good square meal only to find the minute he’s back on his feet he’s used them to run off with a Champions League contender. Or Aston Villa. All of which may explain my current feelings towards Christian ...
- Created on 14 November 1999
- 4. Harry Pearson column: Fans can't get enough of ludicrous excuses for defeats
- (Stories)
- ... slip away to leave them four points adrift of the play-offs, the comments on social media from disgruntled Cumbrians had a familiar ring: manager Keith Curle was clueless and must be fired immediately. ...
- Created on 06 June 2018
- 5. Dalglish & Rush, Summerbee & Lee, Warboys & Bannister – where have the great duos gone?
- (Stories)
- ... like an entourage. But from the 1960s through until the mid-1990s forwards operated in pairs. The best of these striking duos – John Toshack and Kevin Keegan, and Kenny Dalglish and Ian Rush for example ...
- Created on 21 December 2017
- 6. The Bald Facts
- (Players)
- The David Armstrong biography by David Armstrong with Pat Symes Pitch Publishing, £17.99 Reviewed by Harry PearsonFrom WSC 324 February 2014 Buy this book There was always something a little Dickensian ...
- Created on 12 February 2014
- 7. All the rage
- (Harry Pearson column)
- ... scheme of things that – like a religion or a political ideal – it actually merits such Machiavellian intrigue. Accusing the news media of being at the forefront of a right-wing plot against the left, o ...
- Created on 01 January 2014
- 8. Weekly Howl 15-11-13
- (2013)
- ... football calendar – not for the squeamish. --- Also in the news this week Andre Wisdom puts too much trust in his sat nav A spectacular miss in a Bosnian youth match Wild boars' pitch disruption ...
- Created on 20 November 2013
- 9. Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters
- (General)
- ... ndustrial Revolution, with poverty and injustice pervading almost every chapter. The story of Luton's Peace Day Riots of 1919, in which the town hall was burned down, is told with an historian's eye fo ...
- Created on 06 November 2013
- 10. Weekly Howl 18-05-12
- (2012)
- A small portion of despair and enlightenment delivered to your inbox every Friday 18 May 2012 ~ Yesterday Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre said: "The history of this football club means we will ge ...
- Created on 22 May 2012
- 11. Common ground
- (Editorials)
- ... any future discussion about Premier League clubs gaining control of their own overseas broadcasting rights. Last October Liverpool's managing director Ian Ayre suggested that English clubs should be free ...
- Created on 01 April 2012
- 12. TV Times
- (Business & finance)
- ... much larger – but there is a possibility they could be out-Skyed by companies looking to establish new technology in our living rooms. At the start of 2012, the Daily Mail and Guardian suggested that ...
- Created on 01 April 2012
- 13. Derby deprivation
- (Fan culture)
- ... usually expressed through a profound loathing of Alistair Brownlee of BBC Radio Tees. This verbose embodiment of the "only big clubs matter" myth casts aside Reithian impartiality to specialise in questi ...
- Created on 01 November 2011
- 14. Weekly Howl 14-10-11
- (2011)
- ... corporate bluster in the Premier League. It's Liverpool's managing director Ian Ayre for his suggestion that clubs should be able to negotiate their own foreign TV deals. Ayre's proposal was ...
- Created on 20 October 2011
- 15. Booming business
- (Media)
- ... ms, others covered the endeavours of Pegasus, Corinthians and various Old Boys sides. In those days, I later learned, the Times didn't pay any attention to the professional game at all. Actually, that ...
- Created on 21 September 2011
- 16. Building blocks
- (Grounds)
- ... Stanley Park, the future home of Liverpool remains in limbo. Managing director Ian Ayre's recent admission that the preferred redevelopment of Anfield is becoming "increasingly unlikely" was compounded ...
- Created on 21 September 2011
- 17. Division One 1914-15
- (Season in brief)
- ... the FA consulted the War Office and pledged to support the war effort, football was lambasted by politicians, religious leaders and the press. Players and supporters were condemned for indulging in sport ...
- Created on 21 January 2011
- 18. Weekly Howl 12-11-10
- (2010)
- ... during our 5-2 tonking of Leeds in September. Ian Marsden --- Alun Evans is best known for being the first teenage player to be transferred for £100,000 (from Wolves to Liverpool in 1968). But he was ...
- Created on 16 November 2010
- 19. Weekly Howl 29-10-10
- (2010)
- ... can match their flair for public rows. Having whined to FIFA about criticisms from their Russian rivals, they have now formally withdrawn their complaint. Meanwhile, it is unclear who is actually in charge ...
- Created on 04 November 2010
- 20. World Cup 2010 TV diary – Group stages
- (World Cup 2010)
- Relive four weeks of statements of the obvious from the pundits, daily complaints about the wobbly ball and over-emphatic pronunciations of Brazilian names June 11 South Africa 1 Mexico 1 “It’s in Africa ...
- Created on 21 August 2010
