IN a surprisingly relaxed press briefing earlier this week, and with the return of Rafa Benitez on the horizon, Jürgen Klopp was predictably asked his opinion on a man still held in the highest regard by most Liverpool fans. And the German couldn’t have been more...
FOOTBALL’S a bit of a mad one, isn’t it? The tricks it can play on you, the anxieties it can bring out despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the way it’ll make you reach for straw of despair and yet keep you hoping for the impossible. I’m not having it...
MAD what happens when your goalkeeper isn’t a nervous wreck, permanently looking over his shoulder, isn’t it? A clean sheet and a 2-0 away victory with a game-affecting save in a decisive moment. I felt sorry for Loris Karius last week against Tottenham Hotspur. A...
THE last week or so has been fucking crap, hasn’t it? The Reds don’t half make you feel like shit sometimes — the bad tits. It’s mad how much those infuriatingly, inconsistently magnificent nobheads somehow manage to permeate every facet of your life. The first...
JÜRGEN Klopp is now into his third season in the Liverpool job. The Reds are at a point where seasons are made and broken and we’re still having a conversation about the shambolic situation around who is or isn’t wearing the gloves in Liverpool’s goal. If the manager...
ONE of them, isn’t it? A game we’ve seen a million times before but, actually, far less frequently of late than you’d maybe appreciate, but still too often to mention. That you knew on the hour mark, probably earlier, that we were going to get fuck all, where do we...
WITH £75million for paper and things, Virgil got his own set of wings, With his feet off the ground, And the corner on flight, With the Blueshite dead tight, He scored at The Kop Virgil van Dijk… Boss that, wasn’t it? The best kind of win. Absolutely shite,...
ANOTHER three points on the road sees The Reds stride into 2018 — as The Anfield Wrap’s Mike Nevin brilliantly once said — “handily placed”. In an almost complete reverse of 2016-17, Liverpool seem to be regaining momentum after a...
MO, mo, mo he’s magic, yer know. For all the grief that comes his way, Liverpool fans owe Jose Mourinho a debt of immense gratitude. With Mourinho’s recent hypocritical cryarsing about Manchester City and Liverpool spending money, the man who has spent more money than...
WHILE the scoreline might suggest a Boxing Day massacre, for the most part it was a performance that could be described as “professional” by Jürgen Klopp’s hot and cold Reds. It’s something that this side has been craving for far too long, the...
The Anfield Wrap’s free midweek podcast looking back at Liverpool 2 Bologna 0 in the UEFA Champions League and looking towards Liverpool’s trip to Selhurst Park at the weekend.
John Gibbons hosts Dan Austin, Grace Mailey and Josh Williams.
Also in the show John talks to Paul Cutill from Stadium Operations at LFC on the summer concerts.