NOT every good season starts with a win, just as not every poor one begins with a defeat, but there are wins and there are statement wins. Sunday felt like one such. A top-four opponent so one of the harder grounds to visit (Liverpool had won just once there before...
IF there’s one thing that infuriates me about this club it’s the overwhelming affection. That’s sounds wrong, doesn’t it? Let’s try again. If there’s one thing that infuriates me about this club it’s the unconditional love and support for the manager and certain...
“KARL, can you do Sweden?” Of course I can. I’m a pro. I can research with the best of them. In a previous job I once wrote a feature about the different types of fishing nets used for pelagic (oily fish) and demersal (white) species. See, one fish swims...
ON February 21, 2015, Ken Meech, a 50-year-old sheet metal worker from Cleethorpes, travelled to London to attend the Barnet v Grimsby Town game. As a Mariners fan, Ken — along with the 968 other travelling Grimsby supporters — wasn’t going to miss this...
THIS week marks 29 years since Liverpool paid Watford £900,000 for the services of John Charles Bryan Barnes, a player who proved to be one of the finest ever to pull on the red of our club. The Jamaican-born winger clocked up 407 appearances for Liverpool in 10 years...
WE decided to ask Anfield Wrap contributors what they would do this summer with clubs that weren’t their own; how they would resurrect the likes of Aston Villa, how Arsenal make the next step, that kind of thing. Each got to advise, be Director Of Football or...
IT’S an enormous day. A momentous one, and one for which I, and many of us, were not prepared. I’ve always wondered what it would feel like. I pictured celebrations in city squares, hugging strangers and downing pint after pint after pint as those responsible,...
APRIL 12, 1986. It was 30 years ago today. There were many things wrong with this day and they were all my fault. Every single one. No one else’s. I could point to many things – maybe my feng shui was all over the place or my chakras weren’t balanced or something, but...
MARILYN Monroe once said: “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” I’m not sure if she employed second sight and an interest in the 2015-16 league season, but her words do seem to...
IN April 2013, the day after Luis Suarez’s bite on Branislav Ivanovic, I wrote a piece on The Anfield Wrap called ‘The Weekend’s Lowest Point’. The basic gist was that I was angry at Manchester United quietly winning another league title while Liverpool once again...
