IT’S been an interesting start to Xherdan Shaqiri’s Liverpool career. In one way, low key. In another, full of incident. He missed half of pre season due to his World Cup exploits, and then scored an amazing acrobatic goal in a 4-1 win against Manchester...
THEY say good things come to those who wait. Those of us who queue for hours in lines at the post office will disagree, or when you wait for two hours to get a table at a posh restaurant only to get served something that looks like an old shoe drizzled with marmite...
IT’S turning out to be a strange old season, this one. I genuinely don’t know how I feel about it. I mean, I’m happy, I think. Yeah, I must be. A good barometer of my football contentedness is my inclination to watch other teams play football. I’m watching any old...
EXACTLY one year ago, if you picked up the papers as a Red, or clicked on something about Liverpool online, it didn’t make for easy reading. The Reds had been on the end of a 4-1 defeat away to Tottenham Hotspur and the boots were flying in on a side that sat ninth in...
FAITH is a funny thing, isn’t it? The Reds are the best Reds I have seen in probably my whole adult life and here I am as the team news drops, with my undies in my throat, wishing I was one of them grey fellas who liked nothing. I mean, the team has the look of one...
LIVERPOOL answered a few questions and raised a few new ones at the John Smith’s stadium. Jürgen Klopp was the manager who rotated the most last season in the Premier League, but we haven’t seen anywhere near as much of that this campaign. That all changed...
IT’S been an age since Liverpool played some football, in what was a taut match against Manchester City that seemed to last forever. Time is passing and we have the third waypoint of the league season already in site. By the time we pause again for the next...
I CAN’T lie to you, I’ve been thinking about Philippe Coutinho quite a bit. Like a relationship you’ve told yourself was completely over until you heard “your song” or smelt her perfume in a shop doorway somewhere, the abundant sense of melancholy around the little...
IT is never the best idea to begin a Anfield Wrap column by talking about Manchester United – but then United are talking lots about Liverpool… Jose Mourinho said it’s about time Jürgen Klopp lifted some silverware, Gary Neville said he believes the German may...
ONE of the funny things about growing up is that you realise everyone’s dad basically tells the same jokes. I don’t know if there was a joke book that they passed out at Oxford Street Maternity Hospital back in the ’80s — “here you go,...
