IN the anniversary week of Liverpool’s 2019 Champions League final victory, we at The Anfield Wrap are looking at our own experiences from that night. Last year, I detailed the evening I enjoyed in sunny Sussex by the sea with The Brighton Kop. So rather than largely...
MEMORIES are such a strange concept. I saw a meme recently which pointed out that sometimes your brain can remember that it’s forgotten something, but can’t actually remember what that thing was. It makes you think, doesn’t it? There are millions of moments throughout...
THE year 1984 was supposed to be the year of AS Roma. Their Swedish coach, Nils Liedholm, had spent nearly five seasons constructing a team built to win. The season before, they had captured their first Scudetto in over 40 years and the celebrations were memorable but...
THERE’S a reason Nike fought so hard for Liverpool. It isn’t just because they’re world, European and soon to be domestic champions. It is because Nike loves the idea of selling fairy tales of achievement, resolve and making the impossible possible. They, therefore,...
I WONDER if you’re one of those people who attributes the glory of Istanbul to a mere half-time substitution. I wouldn’t blame you if you did, but you’d be barking up the wrong tree. It’s not your fault. You can’t possibly know the truth behind the greatest comeback...
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...
FOR all that the actual football grabs us, there’s always something more. Something surrounding, something special: a story that we grab on to and hold dear. Last weekend, Bundesliga resumed and the sniff of something new in a world stuck on repeat provided a welcome...
FIRST and foremost, I didn’t have a team of choice as so many seemed to. If you heard any of The Anfield Wrap Weekender or Wildcard shows from last week you will have heard me flip flop between saying I don’t care for any other team and tentatively picking one as a...
CITIES with a troubled past are often the best. Look at Paris, home of an art revolution and civil unrest; London, changes of order and riot; and Rome, once the capital of the entire world. It’s even better if that city has a port as you’ve a nice mix of culture...
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…...
