by Paul Rogers | Apr 13, 2012 | Footie
ROBBIE FOWLER, Bill Shankly, Rhys Jones, Gary Ablett and the Hillsborough 96 all get namechecked in a new hip-hop song released by LFC and local rapper Jamie Broad ahead of Saturday’s semi-final. Twenty eight years ago, Liverpool and Everton met in the League Cup...
by Paul Rogers | Sep 26, 2011 | Footie
I NEVER saw The Clash play live. I was just 10 when the band sacked Mick Jones but if I could go back in time and had the choice of seeing any band from any era or any country play, I’d pick The Clash. Every time. On Saturday night, I didn’t quite go back in time but...
by Paul Rogers | Sep 6, 2011 | Footie
WHEN Liverpool return to Premier League action away to Stoke on Saturday, I won’t be anywhere near the Britannia Stadium. In fact, I won’t even be watching in a pub in Liverpool. Instead, I’ll be some 218 miles away on the Isle of Wight, following the game on my...
by Paul Rogers | Sep 1, 2011 | Footie
THERE are remixes and then there are remixes… When I first started buying 12″ records around 1986, it seemed every single had a dance remix available to buy for a pound or so more. Less so much a remix, more a lengthening procedure – what you got was...
by Paul Rogers | Aug 28, 2011 | Footie
LAST week when picking 10 of my favourite Scouse tunes, I claimed I couldn’t really get my head around Liverpool fans who don’t like music from Manchester. If it’s a good tune, it’s a good tune – and, as Rakim once famously rapped,...
by Paul Rogers | Aug 19, 2011 | Footie
INSPIRED by Gareth Roberts’ fantastic piece on this site about his love for all things Scouse when it comes to his listening pleasures – dodgy Pop Will Eat single aside – I’ve compiled my own personal top 10 favourite songs from this city....
by Paul Rogers | Aug 17, 2011 | Footie
LAST week on The Anfield Wrap you may have stumbled across a piece I wrote about how I’d somehow fallen out of love with trainers; how these days I’m more likely to go out and buy a pair of suede Clarks Originals than the latest ‘must-have’...
by Paul Rogers | Aug 7, 2011 | Footie
I’M not quite sure when it happened but at some point over the last three or four years, I gradually fell out of love with buying new trainers. Even writing that feels weird because for as long as I can remember, I’ve loved – and I mean loved –...
by Paul Rogers | Aug 7, 2011 | Footie
I LIKE Noel Gallagher. I once interviewed him on the phone about Manchester City when I worked on the kids football magazine MATCH! sometime around 1994 when Oasis were just starting out. He was pretty funny then and totally down to earth. 17 years on, I don’t...