I HAD a strange relationship with Liverpool’s 2004-5 Champions League campaign. I didn’t watch the Olympiakos game live. It was a friend’s 18th birthday party and I felt obligated to go, coupled with being too nervous to watch the game, so I recorded it with the aim...
FOOTBALL is back. Lovely, efficient, German football. Josh asked each of us to pick a Bundesliga team to throw our full support behind on the first weekend back in the German top flight. After much contemplation, I opted for Borussia Moenchen… Borussia Moenchengl…...
AS usual, Germany is leading the way. The Bundesliga returns at the weekend, with all eyes not just on how they manage as the first major football league to resume following the (almost) worldwide halt of the sport, but to give the rest of us something to watch other...
IT is pretty funny to see how easy it is to amuse a bored football fan. “What will we do without games? I can’t bear the thought of not having footy to watch!” “Make a starting XI composed entirely of left-footed players who have won the Cup Winner’s Cup, played...
‘BEAT everyone, and once you’ve done that, beat them again’. That’s been the theme of Liverpool’s season so far. After playing the other 19 teams in the Premier League once, Liverpool had beaten 18 of them. There was just one outlier. One stubborn opposition that was...
“IF you are first, you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.” – Bill Shankly During The Anfield Wrap’s series of articles about the most significant games from the last few seasons under Jürgen Klopp, I have tried to select occasions where it felt like...
YOU simply cannot overstate just how good Manchester City were in 2017-18. I struggle to understand how anyone who witnessed that season can try to argue, with a straight face, that the Arsenal ‘Invincibles’ were better, or Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea, or any of Alex...
IT had been a good start to the 2016-17 season. Liverpool were expected to push on in Jurgen Klopp’s first full campaign in charge, and had already won away at Arsenal and Chelsea, got a respectable draw at Tottenham in a game they should have won, and dispatched...
I WAS absolutely convinced that Jürgen Klopp would be a success at Liverpool. OK, it wasn’t exactly Nostradamus levels in terms of a prediction, but I was so sure that The Reds had a bright future under the German that I committed to writing a book about his first two...
“WHO is your favourite Liverpool player of all time?” It’s that ‘all time’ bit that gets you. Immediately your mind is cast back, like your life flashing before your eyes, but just the football bits. When I was a nipper, my grandad sat me on his knee and regaled me...
