CONTROL. Control’s fascinating. We’ve fetishised control. I’ve fetishised control. Run a football match and everything will follow. Liverpool today took control. They chose control. A lovely shape in the first half out of possession. Allen and...
THIS BEGAN, as lots of what I do begins, with a not particularly funny joke being taken to extremes. The joke was that every chart I looked at for our book “Make Us Dream”, “H Is For Hawk” was one place ahead. Everywhere I went this particular early bird had indeed...
EVENING all. On Thursday me and John are launching our book along with our many contributors. A wonderful group of people. We will be talking aloud for a while mostly about football and then Silent Sleep will play some lovely music. We’re proud of the book. We...
YOU have had nothing else in your head for days. You have had nothing else in your head for weeks. You watched them do the lap of honour and you thought of this. Normally you think it comes too soon. Normally you want one more week. More of a break before the tyranny...
I SAW TONY EVANS two nights ago. Pint in Cask. You know the drill – loads of talking, mostly done quickly. I tried to explain my issues around Suarez going. I don’t think I was doing it very well. He said I was too concerned about entertainment. Winning,...
HAD A PINT with Steve Graves last night. He is fuming. Fuming about Hodgson. He can’t stop talking about Hodgson. Had a phone call from Daniel Fitzsimmons yesterday. We’re making our debut feature film next week. Imagine that! Making a film. It’s...
OOOOOOH. A Suarez has bit someone think piece. Easy these. There might as well be a billion of them; at the time of writing there is at least a million. But let’s make it a million and one. On the off chance it means or adds anything. Here’s the gist of my...
I’VE BEEN MEANING to write this for a while. But I’ve been busy. Now we have a catalyst. In a sentence: Liverpool FC need to keep their head and their hierarchy in the market this summer. Going round the houses and in approximately one thousand words: I think Iago...
THEY’VE played the season out in Lisbon. Angel Di Maria marvellous, Diego Simeone magnificent, Diego Godin’s hairline a thing of minimalist beauty. I can’t stop thinking about Godin. The receding hairline the Spanish equivalent of Derek Mountfield’s moustache. I...
“LET’S go and sing songs with our friends.” My words to Marjo at the foot of the stairs outside the ground. I’ve spent too much of the last five years not singing songs with my friends. I intend to do it all night tonight. Brendan. I am amazed...
Contributors Tribute To Diogo Jota: The Anfield Wrap
The Anfield Wrap’s free podcast, paying tribute to Liverpool forward Diogo Jota with contributions from Kieran Molyneux, Mick Moran, Ian Ryan, Ella Frederick, John Milburn, Mike Bankole, George Trad and Karl Coppack, hosted by Neil Atkinson…
