IF this Liverpool team have a nemesis, it unleashed all of its power for 30 minutes in the Salzburg arena on Tuesday night. The Austrian side are not the best team in Europe, but in bursts can do a very passable impression of it. Jürgen Klopp’s Reds will face bigger...
THERE was something about that timing, wasn’t there? Just when we (me, and everyone I know anyway) needed a bit of lift from the despair of what has unfolded in the last 24 hours, up pops Big Jürgen; a knowing look on his face, a soft smile – like he wanted to give us...
TAKUMI Minamino, then. The Red Bull Salzburg attacker has been a name on the lips of many in Liverpool for the past week, inciting feelings of fear and danger as The Reds faced a tricky tie against the Austrian’s on Tuesday. Of course, the game was negotiated with...
THE many differences between Klopp’s and Guardiola’s tactics have been spoken and written about for as long as recent memory serves. The Spanish style of tiki taka and the German gegenpressing, which define what both managers do about as well as the UK has defined its...
THERE’S a scene in the film The Commitments where Joey ‘the Lips’ Fagan, the elderly trumpet player with ‘the hardest working band in the world’, finally loses patience with his saxophonist Dean Fay. Over the past weeks Dean has refused to don the regulation tuxedo...
THEM and us. Us and them. Hearts unbroken. Far from it. No one wanted to wake up in the Europa League on Wednesday morning. There should be rules against this sort of thing. I don’t know: Adults only? It isn’t that RB Salzburg and their manager...
MADDEST team ever, them. Was like their manager made them all lash a load of Red Bull down their necks before the game started, watched them all run on fast forward for the first 45. They only have a few players with genuine quality but I’m sure they snuck a few...
THE evolution Liverpool have gone through under Jürgen Klopp has been remarkable. Emerging from Brendan Rodgers’ final season where the club had seemingly lost both their identity on the pitch and the collective relationship with fans off it, the German has fortified...
DEATH, taxes and Liverpool victories. They’re not the three only certain things in life, just three things that seem to be annoying the vast majority of the nation at the moment. The latter seems to be particularly annoying to former Manchester City player Trevor...
FOR an optimist, I can’t half talk myself into some negative mindsets. We’re eight points clear at the top of the league with bookies close to closing bets on us for the league. We are beating every thing that moves, and yet Salzburg away terrifies me. Perhaps...
The Anfield Wrap’s podcast were we delve into the talking points from Liverpool’s recent win at Anfield against Fulham…
Neil Atkinson is joined by John Gibbons, Kieran Molyneux and Grace Mailey.
Also in the show, John chats to Dan and Linford from RAWD a charity offering people with learning difficulties the chance to express themselves through creative mediums like theatre and music…
