Nazira Yusuf is a freelance football journalist covering Liverpool FC, Crystal Palace FC, Leeds United and Nottingham Forest. Also covering women’s football. Naz produces breaking news, match reports, interviews while also developing expertise in video journalism, social media and digital publishing.
Can a 19-year-old kid really look this cool, calm, and composed when European nights at Anfield turn into absolute mayhem? That is the question every Liverpool fan was asking themselves as the final whistle blew on Tuesday night. In what is quickly becoming a classic of the genre, the Reds turned a potential disaster into a seven-goal thriller, […]
Andoni Iraola has received a major double selection boost for Liverpool’s Premier League trip to Brentford, with both Dominik Szoboszlai and Alexander Isak handed immediate starts at the Gtech Community Stadium. In total, Iraola has made six alterations from the side that secured a midweek victory over LASK in Linz. The changes restore key structural pillars across every department […]
There are few sights in football quite as cruel as watching a promising young talent pull up clutching their knee, especially when it happens just minutes into their dream debut under the Anfield lights. When Giovanni Leoni limped off against Southampton in the Carabao Cup third round back in September 2025, every single Kopite felt […]
Lewis Koumas had every reason to let his emotions take over when he finally found the net against LASK. But it was where he scored, the badge on his shirt and the supporters waiting behind the goal that made the moment feel so special for the Liverpool youngster. For any footballer, scoring in the Champions […]
Just when Andoni Iraola needed stability following a grueling 3-0 home defeat to Manchester City, the Liverpool manager has been dealt a double midfield hammer blow. In a match that marked the very first meeting between Liverpool and Man City not to feature either Jurgen Klopp or Pep Guardiola in the dugout since 2015, the […]
When the Manchester City team coach pulled onto Walton Breck Road on Sunday afternoon, you could feel decades of pent-up anger vibrating through L4. This was never going to be just another Premier League fixture. For the entire football world—and especially for those of us on Merseyside who watched Jurgen Klopp’s side push to 97 and […]
When you shell out over £200 million on two of the most talented attacking talents in European football, there are moments when patience wears thin. Sunday afternoon at Anfield was supposed to be the launchpad. Without Alexander Isak and Cody Gakpo sidelined through international injuries, and belatedly lacking Dominik Szoboszlai’s usual driving engine, the stage […]
There were very few places to hide across L4 on Sunday evening. Walking out of Anfield after a 3-0 home defeat to Manchester City is always a bitter pill to swallow, but doing so while listening to the away end celebrate on our turf after financial breach rulings made it border on nauseating. Between a […]
Ask ten different Liverpool supporters to name their personal ‘Mount Rushmore’ of Anfield icons, and you will inevitably trigger a passionate, hour-long debate on the Kop. How on earth do you compress over 130 years of glory, European nights, and world-class brilliance down to just four names? In sporting culture, a ‘Mount Rushmore’ represents the […]
There is a specific kind of nostalgia reserved for the early days of a new managerial era at Anfield. Back in the summer of 2012, as Brendan Rodgers stepped through the doors as Liverpool manager, his very first statement signing arrived from AS Roma for abio Borini’s €13.3 million transfer fee from AS Roma to Liverpool in […]
Is there anything more nerve-wracking for a Liverpool fan than an international break right before Manchester City come to Anfield? That familiar fortnight of domestic silence always brings a specific kind of dread. You find yourself refreshing social media at odd hours, praying that no key men pull up clutching a hamstring in some meaningless […]
There is a particular kind of anxiety that takes hold of Merseyside in the days leading up to a visit from Manchester City. It isn’t fear, per se Anfield has witnessed far too many European royalty and domestic juggernauts humbled under the lights to ever truly tremble but rather a sharp tension. When Enzo Maresca’s […]
