by Rob Gutmann | May 10, 2012 | Footie
IN the blink of Kenny’s eye, as the first hint of traditional Wembley sun shine pierced the cloud canopy over west London, Andy Carroll dropped a shoulder, dropped his marker, pivoted and advanced in one concise movement that perhaps suggested, for the very first...
by Rob Gutmann | Apr 26, 2012 | Footie
A Defence of the Realm – Part One HARRY REDKNAPP’s Spurs have won just one in their last nine and are fifth in the Premier League. Until about six weeks ago ‘the greatest living Englishman’s’ season looked unimpeachable. Third in the table and...
by Rob Gutmann | Feb 16, 2012 | Footie
IT seems clarification is in order. I suppose I must have subconsciously known it when penning a piece on Suarez and Evra that even going near the subject of Heysel was going to provoke reaction. I decided to go with it, to be brutually honest, not for...
by Rob Gutmann | Feb 3, 2012 | Footie
WE knew it was coming. Like day must follow night. Watches were synchronised, heads were shaken and sighs were sighed in resigned anticipation. The first swell of what will so inevitably prove a tsunami of hypocrisy arrived at the start of the new month and was just...
by Rob Gutmann | Nov 20, 2011 | Footie
IT’S GETTING to be a recurring theme bashing pressmen from this platform. Sorry boys, some of yoose are dead good and I really dig your stuff. Some of yoose aren’t though. Some of your number are doing their jobs in a half arsed way. Some of your profession are...
by Rob Gutmann | Oct 19, 2011 | Footie
WIGAN ATHLETIC OWNER owner Dave Whelan said with a straight face last week that his comments about Liverpool’s Ian Ayre’s challenging of the way the premiership money pie is divvied up, was not motivated by his own club’s financial interests but ‘for the good of...
by Rob Gutmann | Oct 6, 2011 | Footie
I FINALLY got the hang of the Guardian tactical chalkboard thing this week. A gift from The Anfield Wrap’s very own Neil Atkinson. It feels like a game changer. I need never leave the homestead again. This Chalkboard is now the font of all (my) knowledge. One need...
by Rob Gutmann | Sep 21, 2011 | Footie
MATT HUGHES of the Times, this week, became the latest journalist, from a growing chorus, to sing from the roof tops about his discontent at Kenny Dalglish’s handling of the British press. He states in his column with unrestrained pomposity : “ The Liverpool manager’s...
by Rob Gutmann | Sep 14, 2011 | Footie
QUESTION : WHEN IS A £50MILLION STRIKER NOT A £50MILLION STRIKER Answer : when he has scored just one solitary half arsed goal in a competitive club match in nearly 10 injury and goal free months. That is Fernando Torres and his current employer’s stark reality. There...
by Rob Gutmann | Aug 28, 2011 | Footie
BACK in the dark days, when a Texan tyrant roamed free in the 2nd city of Empire, debt was the new black, and Liverpool football club was hurtling towards a never imagined abyss, its chief financier and ultimate unlikely knight in shining armour, the Royal Bank of...
