Chris Smith
@bychrissmith.bsky.social
Always Liverpool on Substack. Freelance journalist ✍🏻 bylines with The Guardian and Observer, Wired, and every UK tech site you've ever read. 🎙️ on The Liverpool Way Podcast.
*Sigh* It'd be nice if those of us you'd see VAR gone in a heartbeat, if the refs could show remote competence in a nationally televised game where there's no VAR.
February 14, 2026 at 7:09 PM
*Sigh* It'd be nice if those of us you'd see VAR gone in a heartbeat, if the refs could show remote competence in a nationally televised game where there's no VAR.
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New on Always Liverpool | The 25th Anniversary of our *other* win in Rome is this weekend. It gave me, and a new generation of Reds, a lived chapter in the Liverpool in Europe anthology. No longer feeding only on legends told by others. Proud of this one.
How Rome in 2001 enabled me, and a new generation of Reds, to write their own stories
Liverpool's other win in Rome happened 25 years ago this week. For me, it was an crucial rite of passage.
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February 12, 2026 at 3:35 PM
New on Always Liverpool | The 25th Anniversary of our *other* win in Rome is this weekend. It gave me, and a new generation of Reds, a lived chapter in the Liverpool in Europe anthology. No longer feeding only on legends told by others. Proud of this one.
I massively under appreciated Luis Diaz. Sadio Mane made me a spoiled brat. Every time I watch Diaz for Bayern he's obscenely good. An absolute joy to watch. He's pretty much made himself the main man there too.
I was so wrong.
Diaz is far closer to Mane than Cody Gakpo is to Diaz.
I was so wrong.
Diaz is far closer to Mane than Cody Gakpo is to Diaz.
February 14, 2026 at 4:24 PM
I massively under appreciated Luis Diaz. Sadio Mane made me a spoiled brat. Every time I watch Diaz for Bayern he's obscenely good. An absolute joy to watch. He's pretty much made himself the main man there too.
I was so wrong.
Diaz is far closer to Mane than Cody Gakpo is to Diaz.
I was so wrong.
Diaz is far closer to Mane than Cody Gakpo is to Diaz.
New on Always Liverpool | The 25th Anniversary of our *other* win in Rome is this weekend. It gave me, and a new generation of Reds, a lived chapter in the Liverpool in Europe anthology. No longer feeding only on legends told by others. Proud of this one.
How Rome in 2001 enabled me, and a new generation of Reds, to write their own stories
Liverpool's other win in Rome happened 25 years ago this week. For me, it was an crucial rite of passage.
alwaysliverpool.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:35 PM
New on Always Liverpool | The 25th Anniversary of our *other* win in Rome is this weekend. It gave me, and a new generation of Reds, a lived chapter in the Liverpool in Europe anthology. No longer feeding only on legends told by others. Proud of this one.
Have some of that Joffrey Maye.
February 9, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Have some of that Joffrey Maye.
Was that God's plan too? Dickhead.
February 8, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Was that God's plan too? Dickhead.
Is there a bigger joke of a football club than Tottenham? In the whole world?
February 7, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Is there a bigger joke of a football club than Tottenham? In the whole world?
Wakes up. Sees Arsenal fools jibber jabbering about Declan Rice being better than Steven Gerrard. Dismays again.
February 7, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Wakes up. Sees Arsenal fools jibber jabbering about Declan Rice being better than Steven Gerrard. Dismays again.
CNN talking about the mid-terms as if they're going to be fair.
February 6, 2026 at 3:46 PM
CNN talking about the mid-terms as if they're going to be fair.
New issue of Blood Red out now in newsagents and online. Yours truly with a cover story on Hugo's rise and @theliverpoolway.bsky.social with another cover story on the links with Xabi Alonso.
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February 5, 2026 at 2:49 PM
New issue of Blood Red out now in newsagents and online. Yours truly with a cover story on Hugo's rise and @theliverpoolway.bsky.social with another cover story on the links with Xabi Alonso.
shop.regionalnewspapers.co.uk/blood-red-lf...
shop.regionalnewspapers.co.uk/blood-red-lf...
Is there anything more tedious in the technology world than the forthcoming release of a Samsung Galaxy S phone?
January 30, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Is there anything more tedious in the technology world than the forthcoming release of a Samsung Galaxy S phone?
Another unnecessary thing to say in a month littered with unnecessary things to say.
Arne Slot was keen to measure Liverpool's qualification for the last 16 of the Champions League against their Europa League quarter-final exit to Atalanta in the 2023-2024 season.
January 28, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Another unnecessary thing to say in a month littered with unnecessary things to say.
Worst thing about the Super Bowl being in California? The absolute barrage of Red Hot Chili Peppers music we're going to be subjected to.
January 26, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Worst thing about the Super Bowl being in California? The absolute barrage of Red Hot Chili Peppers music we're going to be subjected to.
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1985, Whiteside to stop Everton winning the Double before we did.
Shaking two fists at the tv, then they show Ron Atkinson doing the exact same gestures. It was like looking in a mirror.
Sat down, shamefaced.
Shaking two fists at the tv, then they show Ron Atkinson doing the exact same gestures. It was like looking in a mirror.
Sat down, shamefaced.
January 25, 2026 at 7:52 PM
1985, Whiteside to stop Everton winning the Double before we did.
Shaking two fists at the tv, then they show Ron Atkinson doing the exact same gestures. It was like looking in a mirror.
Sat down, shamefaced.
Shaking two fists at the tv, then they show Ron Atkinson doing the exact same gestures. It was like looking in a mirror.
Sat down, shamefaced.
It has properly fucked me the next time I play “never have I ever” too.
I just “get the fuck in”d a United goal. That’s what those Arsenal cunts have done to me. I don’t like it. I feel like there isn’t enough soap in the world to wash that stink off me.
January 25, 2026 at 7:14 PM
It has properly fucked me the next time I play “never have I ever” too.
I just “get the fuck in”d a United goal. That’s what those Arsenal cunts have done to me. I don’t like it. I feel like there isn’t enough soap in the world to wash that stink off me.
January 25, 2026 at 7:08 PM
I just “get the fuck in”d a United goal. That’s what those Arsenal cunts have done to me. I don’t like it. I feel like there isn’t enough soap in the world to wash that stink off me.
Just when you think you’ve seen them score the scabbiest goal of all time they find a way to score a scabbier one.
January 25, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Just when you think you’ve seen them score the scabbiest goal of all time they find a way to score a scabbier one.
So weak. So, so weak.
January 24, 2026 at 7:27 PM
So weak. So, so weak.
Love that we’re selling our best left back ever after that.
January 24, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Love that we’re selling our best left back ever after that.
457 British servicemen and women died in Afghanistan.
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 23, 2026 at 4:08 PM
457 British servicemen and women died in Afghanistan.
Fuck that.
Send Slot to Spurs.
Send Slot to Spurs.
January 23, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Fuck that.
Send Slot to Spurs.
Send Slot to Spurs.
Shame we couldn't just have a place to write.
Substack is launching a TV app, and not everyone is happy
Substack is launching a TV app, and not everyone is happy
“File this under – thing we didn’t ask for.”
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January 22, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Shame we couldn't just have a place to write.