I’M a big fan of Villa Park. It’s a proper, traditional football ground. It looks great and it’s got some soul, unlike some stadiums these days. It’s a good away, too, not least because in normal circumstances it’s easy enough to get to from Merseyside and, more often...
LET’S have it right here from the very beginning… Liverpool’s win at Wolves on December 21, 2018, was NOT my favourite match of last season. But you know, we are where we are. Mr Friday Column is left with the breadcrumbs after everyone else this week has feasted on...
THE more we find ourselves holed up in homes and lassoed by lockdown, the more the idea that football is inconsequential looks ever more daft. When placed side by side with living or dying, then of course there are no comparisons. Everything is on hold now with very...
STATUS and standing can often be seen as dirty words in the day-to-day business of life. If you’re talking about yourself in relation to either you’re likely teetering perilously close to a “don’t you know who I am” situation. And who would want that? In football...
IT was April 2016. The new manager had his feet firmly under the table by now, having been in the job for six months. It was clear a few things had taken Jürgen Klopp by surprise. The damaged Liverpool mindset on and off the pitch, the fixture list, the increased...
WRITE about your favourite player. That should be easy enough, right? And yet, it’s not. Not for me, anyway. Because there have been ages and stages. Go all the way back, to way back when, and the kid with a big barnet and short trousers was starry-eyed about Kenny...
I RECKON my early experiences of the match aren’t that typical of a footie-loving lad growing up on Merseyside. Those romantic ideals of dad and lad going to the Liverpool match together, passing down the traditions, sharing the routines, becoming versed in ‘the way’?...
THERE’S not too much to connect the football clubs of Liverpool FC and Norwich City on the surface of things, or even the two cities they represent. There is a direct train between Merseyside and East Anglia if you fancy sitting through the five hours and 20 minutes...
THIS is a season that promises so much. A league title wrapped up in our red bows for the first time in 30 years. A tilt at defending the Champions League. Who knows, maybe even the traditional treble to put alongside the two cups already in the bag. There’s talk too...
AS Liverpool march on seemingly unopposed to a long-awaited 19th league title, the ghosts of Anfield past continue to haunt regardless. That it took until Mo Salah’s goal against Manchester United for supporters en masse to pump out “and now you’re gonna believe us,...
The Anfield Wrap podcast after LFC 3 Crystal Palace 0, Ibrahima Konate’s debut, James Milner, 100 goals for Sadio Mane, and 200 games for Henderson as Captain. John Gibbons hosts Lizzi Doyle, Jay McKenna and Jamie Webster…
