LIVERPOOL have had their share of “cult” heroes. What is the definition of a cult hero? According to the dictionary: “a writer, musician, artist, or other public figure greatly admired by a relatively small audience or is influential despite limited (commercial)...
WELL then. He’s back at Anfield tomorrow with The Hammers, or is it The Irons? The lads from London Stadium, or is it The Olympic Stadium? The geezers who used to patrol the manor of Upton Park, or was it the Boleyn Ground? Bit mixed are East London’s finest and now...
IN February 2007, Tom Hicks and George Gillett purchased Liverpool FC. It was a turbulent three-and-a-half years in the history of the club, and it also sparked the birth of Liverpool Supporters Union, Spirit of Shankly. “An Epic Swindle” was how Hicks later...
“NEVIN! Where’s your bloody kit?” “Sorry Sir, forgot it (again)”. My classmates trudged off onto the cold, windswept rugby pitch while I tried to avoid a beating. Where school rugby was concerned I was in a state of permanent futuristic forgetfulness and panic,...
I WAS a young kid when Kenny Dalglish signed for Liverpool. By the time we began to see the dying of the light; a battered Glaswegian suffering the aftermath of a fractured cheekbone at the hands of Manchester United’s blunderbuss centre-half, Kevin Moran during the...
TICK tock. Tick tock. There’s five days to go until the transfer window shuts again. I feel like we’ve been here before but this time it’s different. In the Januarys of 2009, 2014 and 2017 Liverpool entered the New Year primed for title tilts. On each occasion the...
I HAD to get away this week. My head was chocka. My head is never “burnt out” — as the modernism goes — but sometimes it feels like it might explode. I got that feeling last week as the Phil Coutinho farce did my fucking swede in. Not so much his leaving,...
I’M a big fan of rotation. It’s a causation of the modern game but as Rafa Benitez will testify sorely, an approach you need to get right or face your critics. Benitez was pilloried for resting his key players occasionally. To do so at the time was a relatively new...
I DON’T know about you, but I’m knackered. This glut of games before New Year isn’t even half complete and I’m flagging already. Imbued with Bill Shankly’s notion of “professional” support; pre-match drills, the matches themselves, and even the warm downs involve a...
I bumped into a good Red friend this week at a GSCE awards night at my daughter’s school. Peter Harvey and I go back years, to school days in Crosby, Merseyside but more memorably to the local betting shop throughout our student days in the late 1980s. Post...
The Anfield Wrap’s live podcast looking ahead to Liverpool v Crystal Palace in the Premier League at Anfield.
Neil Atkinson hosts Dan Morgan, Sean Rogers and Ste Evans, as well as John Gibbons speak to Spanish football journalist Euan McTear about the Barcelona debacle and The Echo’s Paul Gorst about the latest around Liverpool’s transfer business…
