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Article: Football: Evolution or revolution?; `Phil is a ghost from a lost era'.(Sport)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 14, 1998
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OVER THE past few seasons the Anfield trophy cabinet has been as empty as Oliver Reed's hotel mini-bar. During a heatwave. On his birthday.
There is one main reason for this. Liverpool football club seems intent on forever marching into the future with its head turned backwards gazing wistfully into the past.
The Anfield legacy has become a millstone around the club's neck, and the footwear in the Boot Room, these days, is of the concrete variety.
If the Kop is ever again to resound to the cheers of titles and European trophies, perhaps it is time ...