MANCHESTER is our Shelbyville. Our parallel universe. To the untrained eye it all looks and feels quite similar. The streets, the bricks, the rain, the lads, the wind, the water, the girls, the food. The football. The devil, though, has always been in the differences....
IS it just me or do you feel like we might just have slightly cheated ourselves out of a proper Champions League night out? Doing Porto 5-0 in the first leg was the best and all that but we could have kept it to two or three. We’d still have been supremely confident...
“Rafa, Rafa… “Rafa, Rafa… “Rafa Benitez… “Xabi Alonso, Garcia and Nunez.” Fucking Antonio Nunez. Remember him? The makeweight in the deal that took Michael Owen to Madrid. He scored a goal for Liverpool Football Club and...
LIVERPOOL have been on their holidays. Jürgen Klopp’s recipe for reducing fatigue and stress on over-worked limbs is to win first legs of Champions League ties 5-0. It’s a natty trick. Liverpool Football Club may have a home fixture against Porto to come on March 6,...
IT’S Feb and it’s fab. The Reds are back in the knockout stage of the European Cup for the first time since 2009. Those were heady days. I was nine years younger for start. My youngest, Rafael, wasn’t even alive. Well, he was about to be alive. I remember the draw...
I’M brimming with something. Not quite confidence. I think it might just be plain old excitement. The Reds aren’t quite on the boil but they continue to simmer nicely. There’s 12 games left and we’ve got ourselves involved in a good, ol’ fashioned run in. I love...
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR are a very decent side. Our encounter with them on Sunday is the 22nd match we have played since they beat us 4-1 at their temporary home of Wembley Stadium back in October. There’s been an ocean flow under a bridge since then. Spurs arrive to...
IT’S the end of the world as we know it. Liverpool falling. Falling, tumbling, spiralling, falling from grace. We’re marching on Melwood, Anfield and Boston. The torches are lit. We’re not doing it for ourselves, but for future generations. Is it just us? Or do all...
THAT was a kick in the nuts, wasn’t it? Never mind, eh? Up the reality checking Reds. It’s not for us to just disappear into the sunset. No need for a scrappy narrow victory when we’re having an off day. Liverpool descended on the bottom-placed team Swansea, the...
IT’S always grounds for concern when my excitement about The Reds begins to go off the register. I was getting silly on the back of all of those wins over Christmas. I was developing a nervous twitch and smiling so much that people were worried I’d had a stroke. After...
The Anfield Wrap’s free podcast looking back at Liverpool 4 Tottenham Hotspur 2 during the 2023-2024 Premier League season. Neil Atkinson hosts John Gibbons, Beth Lindop and Dan Austin…
