I’VE just finished reading George Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Set in the 1930s, it concerns a poet called Gordon Comstock who declares war on the ‘money god’ which dominates the world. He refuses a well-paid job writing ludicrous advertising copy and instead...
HOW’S your therapy going? It’s Monday night as I write this so you’re ahead of me. I’m still somewhere between fury, nonchalant acceptance and utter confusion. My state changes every couple of minutes. That might be reflected here. 7-2 though. 7-2! And not to a fully...
IN October 1986, Liverpool travelled to Craven Cottage to play Fulham in the second leg of a Littlewoods Cup tie. The Double winners sat third in the league having seen off Wimbledon at Plough Lane three days earlier. There wasn’t much interest in the tie and that was...
OVER the weekend the press reported that our first game of the season had everything. It had goals, disallowed goals, defensive howlers, a hat-trick, two charismatic managers and more to and fro action than your average basketball game. That’s not true though. It...
WELCOME to the 2020-21 season. Furthermore, welcome to the Champions of England. In the same way I never grew tired of referring to the lads in red as the European Champions last year, I’ll be adopting a similar moniker, albeit more domestic, for the following...
NORWICH was hot. Roasting hot. Anfield feels different when it’s warm. Don’t be fooled by the televisual sight of the ground basking in glorious sunshine. A lot of the time it’s cold or at least ‘coat weather’, but when you can put shorts on and leave your forearms...
THERE’S a line in the film Shadowlands which has always stuck with me. The film concerns the friendship between the writer C.S Lewis and the American poet Joy Davidman Grisham. While Lewis (played by Anthony Hopkins) is the model of repressed and proper Oxford...
LAST week, The Anfield Wrap opened nominations for our ‘Embodiment of Liverpool FC’ award. This accolade goes to the player or staff member who represents the ideals of the club and performs them at every available opportunity. In short, it’s someone who ‘gets us’ and...
IT’S been quite a week. While the heavy City defeat was written off through face-saving indifference and outraged fury (ours being the most bipolar of all clubs), talk soon turned to the cheery possibility of the Premier League Champions signing Thiago Alcantara from...
Liverpool’s Inter Improvement & Mo Salah Madness: TAW Midweek Extra
The Anfield Wrap’s midweek free podcast brings reaction to Liverpool’s win over Inter Milan, the latest on Mo Salah and a look ahead to Brighton & Hove Albion. John Gibbons hosts Craig Hannan, Adam Melia and Jay McKenna…
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