The Anfield Wrap – Episode Eight

This week, Neil is joined by Kristian Walsh, Rob Gutmann, Mike Girling, David Rawcliffe, Brian Durand, Jim Boardman, Gareth Roberts and in a hand across the park gesture of peace, representing the bitters, Barrie White. Wolves, Brighton, Bellends, Politicisation,...

DIVVIES – A RANT

by Philip BlundellTHERE are a number of Wordsmiths that write on this website. I am not a Wordsmith by any stretch of the imagination, but I’d be intrigued to see if any of them could describe the people who are filling our ground with negativity with a better word...

INTERVIEW: THE TEA STREET BAND

NEIL CONDRON interviews THE TEA STREET BAND for The Anfield Wrap. WHILE the rain poured down on most of the country this summer, a solitary ray of Balearic sunshine was warming parts of Liverpool and bringing some of its favourite sons back out from the shade. Formed...

The Anfield Wrap – Episode Seven

THIS week, while resisting the urge to slash our wrists, Neil Atkinson is joined by The Liverpool Echo’s James Pearce, Rob Gutmann, Mike Girling, Jim Boardman, Kristian Walsh, Andy Heaton, Proganda Photo’s David Rawcliffe and briefly, master baker Laura...

Justice, My Arse

£330,000. By Peter Carney, March 2001 LAST Thursday an ex South Yorkshire policeman, Mathew Long, was awarded £330,000 for the suffering he has been caused by late onset Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I don’t know the full details of the role this man played on the...

Scot Williams: Hard Boiled Sweets

SCOT WILLIAMS was one of the guests on this week’s podcast and told us about his forthcoming movie ‘Hard Boiled Sweets’, out soon. How soon depends partly on you. Read to the end and please give the powers-that-be a nudge to get it on a big screen near you....

The Anfield Wrap – Podcast Six

ON this week’s podcast, host Neil Atkinson is joined by The Liverpool Echo’s Neil Jones, The Telegraph’s Rory Smith, Hard Boiled Sweets star Scot Williams, Anfield Road’s Jim Boardman, Late Tackle’s Gareth Roberts, Godfather of the...
LIES, DAMNED LIES & RAUL MEIRELES

LIES, DAMNED LIES & RAUL MEIRELES

By Phil Blundell STATISTICS. They’re a recent phenomenon in the game of football, and I’ll be honest, they drive me up the wall. Football is not a game suited, in general, by statistical analysis, and the new craze of associating any little statistic to back up some...

DON’T BUY THE SUN CONCERT

ONE campaign that always unites supporters of both of Merseyside’s Premier League clubs is a campaign that has been going for 22 years and remains as strong now as it was the day it began. The Sun’s editor in 1989, Kelvin MacKenzie, chose to run with a pack of lies...