“WHATEVER gets you through the night, it’s alright.” Say what you want about John Lennon – and in this city most people will have something to say – he got that one right. The past couple of weeks have taught us many things about just what our team and its...
THE arrival of the winter break in the calendar this year has coincided with my own getaway, and I’m remaining as true to it as Jürgen Klopp and his players. I’m currently in Costa Rica, staying with family in a lovely town called Atenas. We’re seven hours behind GMT...
LIVERPOOL have changed beyond recognition since their rollercoaster 2017-18 season under Jürgen Klopp. Control and patience has replaced the chaotic and frantic football that took the team on some incredible highs and mystifying lows. In many senses, the season was...
SOMETIMES, the best players in the game are most conspicuous by their absence. It evokes a sense of loss on a football pitch, so profound that the person and their presence can still be felt despite the fact they cannot grace the occasion. Mohamed Salah in Kyiv is a...
IT seems the rest of the Premier League are already looking to next season where winning the competition is concerned. Liverpool are steaming ahead of the rest, with a points lead they have no intention of letting up on. Supporters are rightly remaining tight lipped...
THERE is something to be said for just saying it. What’s the worst that can happen, you’re proven wrong? Well that can happen any minute of any day. And when it comes to supporting Liverpool Football Club, we’ve seen it go heartbreaking and spectacularly wrong on...
I ONCE failed a driving test because I decided to point out another driver’s dangerous error in my peripheral vision. Although it didn’t affect me or what I was trying to accomplish, I was ever the smart arse and thought that showing such astute awareness of my...
TAKUMI Minamino, then. The Red Bull Salzburg attacker has been a name on the lips of many in Liverpool for the past week, inciting feelings of fear and danger as The Reds faced a tricky tie against the Austrian’s on Tuesday. Of course, the game was negotiated with...
I DON’T like the derby for a number of reasons. My friends constantly take the piss out of the fact that even if Everton found themselves bottom of the Premier League on no points and faced a Liverpool team who had already won the league, I’d still take a draw. I’ve...
RAHEEM Sterling, Emilia Clarke and Little Mix have all this week encouraged people to register to vote. It’s a sentiment we can all get behind, particularly from a football figure using his public platform and fame to bring awareness to things which actually...
The Anfield Wrap’s pre match show ahead of Liverpool’s trip to Villa Park to face Aston Villa in the Premier League.
Ian Ryan hosts Josh Sexton, Gregg Munikwa and Sean Rogers.
Also in the show, John Gibbons chats to Tom Fahy about Friday nights game and Neil Atkinson talks to Les Wright and Danny Smith about their charity 5-a-side fundraiser in June.