Jay Spearing

Defensive Midfielder - Retired
13 Nov 2027
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Marked for Jay Spearing

17 Edition

The Liverpool Gazette

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match18 Nov 2026

Liverpool through in the cup

A 6‑0 win over Grimsby Town, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Market23 Nov 2026

Alexis Mac Allister hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Liverpool can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

Kasper Dolberg keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Liverpool may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Cody Gakpo takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

A defender's goal wins it for Liverpool — 7.61

1 for Jay Spearing, marked 7.61, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Ryan Gravenberch goes up and wins it — 7.86

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.86 for the rest of it.

Match18 Nov 2026

6 goals as Liverpool and Grimsby Town go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Liverpool and Grimsby Town, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

Alisson gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

One of those days for Cody Gakpo

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.44, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Liverpool Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad7 Sep 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Josh Sargent

51 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Liverpool lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market7 Sep 2026

Dominik Szoboszlai puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Liverpool, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Deadline passes with 8 signed and 13 gone

That is the business done at Liverpool until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market7 Sep 2026

Rodrigo De Paul wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Liverpool hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Jérémy Jacquet is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Bradley Barcola slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Bradley Barcola is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A falling-out at Liverpool

Finn Inglethorpe and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

Alexis Mac Allister gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Alexis Mac Allister is on it.

Market7 Sep 2026

Florian Wirtz linked with a move away

The name of Florian Wirtz keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Liverpool say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief