Head of Content at Liverpool Football Club, lover of music, photography and quality footwear. I won't be writing about football for the Anfield Wrap - instead, I've been told I can just write about random things I like. So, that's what I'm going to do - create a scrapbook-style blog about all sorts of nonsense that I like - or have liked - over the last 25 years or so. Feel free to give it a swerve.
by Paul Rogers // 13 April 2012
ROBBIE FOWLER, Bill Shankly, Rhys Jones, Gary Ablett and the Hillsborough 96 all get namechecked in a new hip-hop song released by LFC and local rapper Jamie Broad ahead of Saturday’s semi-final. Twenty eight years ago, Liverpool and Everton met … Continue reading
by Paul Rogers // 26 September 2011
I NEVER saw The Clash play live. I was just 10 when the band sacked Mick Jones but if I could go back in time and had the choice of seeing any band from any era or any country play, … Continue reading
by Paul Rogers // 6 September 2011
WHEN Liverpool return to Premier League action away to Stoke on Saturday, I won’t be anywhere near the Britannia Stadium. In fact, I won’t even be watching in a pub in Liverpool. Instead, I’ll be some 218 miles away on … Continue reading
by Paul Rogers // 1 September 2011
THERE are remixes and then there are remixes… When I first started buying 12″ records around 1986, it seemed every single had a dance remix available to buy for a pound or so more. Less so much a remix, more … Continue reading
by Paul Rogers // 28 August 2011
LAST week when picking 10 of my favourite Scouse tunes, I claimed I couldn’t really get my head around Liverpool fans who don’t like music from Manchester. If it’s a good tune, it’s a good tune – and, as Rakim … Continue reading
by Paul Rogers // 19 August 2011
INSPIRED by Gareth Roberts’ fantastic piece on this site about his love for all things Scouse when it comes to his listening pleasures – dodgy Pop Will Eat single aside – I’ve compiled my own personal top 10 favourite songs … Continue reading
by Paul Rogers // 17 August 2011
LAST week on The Anfield Wrap you may have stumbled across a piece I wrote about how I’d somehow fallen out of love with trainers; how these days I’m more likely to go out and buy a pair of suede … Continue reading
by Paul Rogers // 7 August 2011
I’M not quite sure when it happened but at some point over the last three or four years, I gradually fell out of love with buying new trainers. Even writing that feels weird because for as long as I can remember, … Continue reading
by Paul Rogers // 7 August 2011
I LIKE Noel Gallagher. I once interviewed him on the phone about Manchester City when I worked on the kids football magazine MATCH! sometime around 1994 when Oasis were just starting out. He was pretty funny then and totally down to … Continue reading