Eddie Gibbs
@eddiegibbs
Host of King & AI podcast with Sir Kenny Dalglish. Director Liberty Shield VPN, Anfield Index, EPL Index, Scothosts etc. Tweet mainly on Sport & Tech.
🟥 The Beginning of the End for FSG? There's a temptation to see the reported sale of a minority stake in Liverpool as little more than another financial transaction. I think it deserves a broader lens.
🟥 Remembering Liverpool’s First True Superstar 🙏 RIP Kevin Keegan (1951 - 2026)
🏏 Remembering Kris Glen I don't often post tributes like this, but every so often someone comes along whose impact isn't measured by fame, it's measured by the lives they touched. Kris Glen was one of those people.
🇮🇪 The Nurse We All Remember 🙏 RIP Brenda Fricker (1945 - 2026) For so many people, Brenda Fricker will forever be remembered as an Oscar winner or as the Pigeon Lady in Home Alone 2. For me, she was Megan Roach.
🌴🏏 The Name That Defined Cricketing Greatness 🙏 RIP Sir Garfield Sobers (1936 - 2026) Sir Garfield Sobers retired two years before I was born, but his legend was already woven into my childhood.
🏴 Tuchel’s England Found Their Nerve I was wrong. I'm wrong a lot. That's one of the reasons football keeps dragging me back. It has a habit of making certainty look foolish, and I was certain England would lose this one.
🏴 Kane Rescues England From Reality ⚽ England 2-1 DR Congo England are through, Harry Kane has once again reminded everyone why he remains the finest striker in world football, and yet I came away feeling exactly as I did before kick-off. Nothing I watched changed my mind.
🇵🇹 Portugal Must Stop Serving The Legend There comes a point in every great career when the hardest opponent is not the defender standing in front of you, but the truth staring back from the mirror. Portugal have reached that point with Cristiano Ronaldo.
🏴 England's World Cup Reality Check England have done what competent sides are meant to do. They won the group, avoided catastrophe, and moved into the knockouts with the draw opening up in front of them. That deserves credit.
🏴 Right Decision, Hard Truths Steve Clarke has made the right decision. History should remember him kindly for dragging Scotland back to major tournaments, restoring belief and making qualification feel possible again. That achievement deserves respect and gratitude.
🟥 Rio's Next Move Matters I still believe there is more to the Rio Ngumoha, Bayern Munich story than a club simply making an enquiry. Liverpool have made it abundantly clear that one of the brightest young talents in English football is not for sale.
🟥 Inter's Jones Valuation Is Absurd There are two Curtis Jones debates happening at once, and too many people are muddling them up.
🇨🇮 Diomande Price Is Huge, But So Is the Prize For all the noise, the valuations, the social media experts and the daily transfer updates, the most interesting part of the Yan Diomande story may be what we're not yet hearing.
🏴 Where Was Scotland's Ambition? Scotland can talk about penalty shouts, refereeing decisions and qualification permutations all they like, but the uncomfortable truth is far simpler. They were second best from the moment the first ball was kicked.
❌ A Shortcut to Safety? There's something deeply revealing about today's under-16 social media ban announcement. Not because of the ban itself, but because of what it says about modern government.
🏴 A Win, A Smile, A Shrug Yesterday I cared far more about the darts than the football.
🟥 Adam Wharton is an outstanding talent. But if Crystal Palace really want £100m, Liverpool may need to look elsewhere. Angelo Stiller offers many of the same qualities, elite progression, chance creation, intelligence in possession and the intensity Andoni Iraola's football demands.
🇯🇵 A Cruel End for Japan’s Warrior Captain Some footballers leave their mark with tricks, headlines and highlight reels. Wataru Endo left his with honesty, courage and an unfashionable devotion to the team.
🇧🇪 Football without Origi is nothing Divock Origi retires at 31, and somehow that feels perfectly him. Early, unexpected, a little mysterious, with the last word belonging to nobody other than himself.
🟥 Rio Noise Feels Familiar The Rio Ngumoha noise has all the usual fingerprints.
🟥 Inter Come Calling For Liverpool’s Last Scouser There is something bleakly symbolic about Curtis Jones edging towards the Liverpool exit door at the exact moment the club feels furthest removed from its own identity.
🇯🇵 On This Day in 1932, gunshots inside the Japanese Prime Minister’s residence helped push an entire nation towards militarism and war. The May 15 Incident changed Japan forever, and nearly claimed the life of Charlie Chaplin too. Read the full story FREE on my history Substack 📚👇
⚽ Villa Park feels like another reckoning Liverpool are awful, as I seem to write every week, and Villa Park feels like an opportunity for another inspection of the wreckage.
⚽ Arsenal are nearly champions. They will deserve it. But this VAR decision cannot be viewed in isolation.
⚽ Two Struggling Sides, One Point of Pride #LFC 🆚 #Chelsea | #PremierLeague Preview
The Cage, where ordinary people run out of road ⭐ 8/10 ⚠️ Spoiler Warning: This review discusses major plot points from The Cage on @BBCiPlayer. Best read after watching the full season.