THE football hipster in me had fallen out of love with the World Cup a little ever since it was expanded to a 32-team tournament for France 1998. While yes, the event was given a more symmetrical system, I felt it lost some shine. The idea of four out of the six...
NOTHING said ‘cup final day’ more than a dog in full football kit. The FA Cup Final used to be the biggest day on the football calendar. It was absolutely massive and the country would grind to a halt to decorate front windows of houses, to hand over good money to buy...
SO here we stand, blinking in the cold light of day, the mind whirring as it attempts to compute exactly what happened over the course of the last nine months. How we came from relatively nowhere to somewhere completely different, somewhere so close to our ultimate...
SELHURST PARK. BLOODY HELL. TWICE before Selhurst Park had played a pivotal role in the outcome of a title race we’d been involved in, and on neither occasion had Crystal Palace been our opponents. 1990 a 4-0 win against Charlton Athletic had been a big step towards...
THAT was a week when everything deviated away from the idea that this wild ride of a football season was all about us. How no-one else mattered, how no-one else was relevant. Jose Mourinho made himself very relevant. He used all the dirtiest tricks at his disposal....
BOOTIFUL. Just bootiful. Three games to go. The fourth game from the finish line took balls to navigate – balls made not of butter, but of steel. Stainless steel. This was Norwich City, this was Norfolk, this was Bernard Matthews country and this was no turkey trot....
I WAS slowly meandering my way up Douglas Road, past Anfield Primary School and about to swing a right at the Flat Iron onto Anfield Road towards the ground when I heard it. What exactly it was that met my ears was the loudest noise I have ever heard outside of our...
IT’S the music. It’s all about the music. Superstitions are all well and good, and I have my fair share of them, but when push comes to shove are we really going to miss out on the title if the regular chippy is shut? Are we really going to miss out on the title...
SIX to go. The last bend navigated and we’ve straightened up for the finish. The destiny of the title in our hands. This is different; very different. Rewind to a year ago. The 2012-13 Liverpool FC will forever be damned by black and white statistics. When people,...
EVEN when we win ugly, it’s beautiful. Yes, the 2-1 win against Sunderland was an undeniably nervous one, but in many respects that shouldn’t have come as any surprise. Liverpool have just come off the back of a run of five league games, four of them away...
The Anfield Wrap’s free podcast looking back at Liverpool 4 Tottenham Hotspur 2 during the 2023-2024 Premier League season. Neil Atkinson hosts John Gibbons, Beth Lindop and Dan Austin…
