THE problem with classic games and famous victories is that over time and multiple showings, the gloss fades and the sparkle is lost. This match is a case in point. Everyone knows about this game, everyone knows about the Tom Finney quote and everyone knows that he...
IT’S a strange thing to have one of your favourite games of all time be a draw, stranger still perhaps to choose a draw from a season where your side has hammered the entire division into oblivion in 10 months of mouth-watering high octane football, but this is one...
FOR me he will always be the personification of Liverpool Football Club. Every characteristic Ronnie Moran possessed was shared and utilised by the club he loved. He could be hard when someone was slacking off and ruthless when a player could no longer reach the...
THIS night began with me nearly being run over outside the HJC shop. My mates and I had been raising some money for a former Liverpool great and would often meet people who wanted to help out. It so happened that on the night of the Madrid game we met a man called...
PHIL Neal is Liverpool’s greatest ever full-back. He just is. In any discussion of our finest Liverpool 11s his name is usually cemented into the number two shirt, even by those who didn’t see him play. It’s just a truism. If you’re tempted to compile a list, write...
IF you’re of sufficient age but are struggling to recall this game it’s generally known as the ‘tear gas game.’ Yes, the Liverpool v Manchester United game that escalated to chemical warfare. The two FA Cup games of 1985, recently covered here as part of ‘The Rivals’...
LET me take you back to a painful day in our recent history. Sunday April 27, 2014. Liverpool 0 Chelsea 2. That one. I was low down on The Kop that day with my mate Tony. Front row, corner flag. We were so close to the action that we could have tapped Iago Aspas on...
BRIAN Tinnion. This is all about Brian Tinnion. Younger readers may struggle to recall the highlights of Brian’s career, as his is a name which isn’t easily recalled by many of their generation so the salient facts are these. He played the majority of his football...
HOW many emotions can you go through while watching the game? If I can chart my own during the Swansea game they would chronologically run as follows; excitement (the Reds were playing) followed by a slight concern, a sense of unluckiness, boredom, more boredom, a...
IN 1987-88 domestic season football briefly stopped becoming competitive. Liverpool were so dominant at this point that, thanks to the signings of John Barnes, Peter Beardsley and, a year earlier, John Aldridge, the league was a foregone conclusion come Christmas....
The Anfield Wrap’s midweek free podcast after Liverpool have been crowned champions.
Joining John Gibbons for a chat about what Liverpool might look like next season, what the rest of this season should look like and a chat about Chelsea are Ali Gunn, Mo Stewart and James Sutton.
Also in the show, John chats to Lewis Steele about the Reds and what they could do over the summer.
