I STARTED writing this when I got back from the pub on Sunday night. I was drunk. I greeted my wife and went straight in with an “I’m bevvied” admission. It’s a tactic I’ll often use in those situations, when I’ve arrived home...
IMAGINE if you didn’t know anything about our current squad and I burst into the pub one day as the knowledgeable football genius that I am, to inform you about two lads that I’ve just seen in a red shirt. The first is a young fella who’s only 21...
IT’S hard work this, isn’t it? When I was greeted by family at a New Year’s Eve party after the Manchester City game with the question “did you enjoy that?”, I responded with an emphatic “I’m absolutely knackered”. I said the same after spending a full five minutes...
THEY’RE all afraid of us now, Reds. Chelsea might be top of the league, but there’s only one team in the land that they’re all scared of. One team’s name that fans around the country are dreading when flicking through their teams’ fixture lists. Talking to...
“LIES, damn lies and statistics.” I first heard that phrase in my A-Level maths class while, ironically, studying statistics (my teacher was the funniest Evertonian I’ve ever met, whose teaching style was to treat his students like adults and let us...
YOU’RE all celebrating the wrong things. They were the words of my nephew’s academy side’s coach to all of the kids’ parents. You’re all celebrating the wrong things. I go to watch my nephew play as often as I can and, like with all football, there’s a propensity even...
WITH his team drawing 0-0 against the bottom of the table side with 60 minutes of the match gone, Roy Hodgson’s captain drills a pass into The Kop and a 55-year-old bloke in the Paddock groans “oh for Christ’s sake, Poulsen” at a volume loud enough for Roy to hear...
LIVERPOOL have dominated for 85 minutes away from home. They’ve missed chance after chance. Your doom-mongering mate sends you a Whatsapp message saying “They’ll score now, you know”. It gets to stoppage time. You’ve been biting your...
I STARTED writing this article in the aftermath of the verdicts of the Hillsborough inquests being delivered, but abandoned it because it didn’t feel like the right time to say some of the things I wanted to say. In the months that have passed, some of Britain voted...
NOW that I have a weekly article on these pages you’ll soon realise that I’m a fan of quotes. Mainly quotes to motivate me and quotes to remind me that nothing we’re experiencing is very new at all. My uncle said to me a few nights ago...
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.
