“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill THE start of another journey. Thirty-eight games. One match, one step at a time. Week by week, month by month. Slowly building. Walking...
HIS face is everywhere. On billboards across the world, on the side of planes, even in Times Square in New York City. Mo Salah is a world-renowned superstar. Twelve months ago, to many outside of Egypt and Rome, he was still that Chelsea reject who cost too much and...
I USED to say this: Delusion leads to hope. Hope leads to belief. Belief leads to achievement. If you can’t kid yourself you can do something, then you just can’t do it. That definitely remains true. The maxim is correct. The thing is this: Liverpool have...
LIVERPOOL FC are coming back over the Irish Sea, and so are The Anfield Wrap! Jürgen Klopp’s men are taking on Napoli at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday August 4, so before that we want to have a drink with some of the local Reds. So if you’re there already – or...
IT feels like a good time to be a Liverpool supporter. The club have established themselves as serious players in the transfer market, are showing a growing appreciation of Liverpool fan culture and the team remain one of the Premier League’s most entertaining sides...
THERE is a murmur. The murmur becomes a buzz and then there is a noise. He is coming. He is coming. The noise becomes a roar as he is on the sideline stripped and ready. This is acclamation. The roar never subsides as he fights for a first ball, pops it off, gets in...
MISSED you handsome. Missed you gorgeous. Let’s start again. You forget the tours. This thing happens: the centre of the Liverpudlian universe moves to a whole new fixed location. You see it in a million ways. The most obvious is the football match but it goes...
THE promised land of post-World Cup transfer activity has arrived. Before the tournament had kicked off, the club communicated through local journalists that deals would be done once it had concluded. After weeks of talk of it coming “home”, followed by...
LIVERPOOL have confirmed the signing of Xherdan Shaqiri from Stoke City for a reported fee of £13million, so we took a look at what the Swiss international can offer The Reds. Background To The Player Shaqiri was born on October 10, 1991, in Gjilan, a Kosovan city in...
I’VE written and rewritten the introduction to this piece several times so far. That is a reflection of the difficulty I’m feeling over the discussion around Loris Karius. After the Champions League final, some are happy to declare him as completely shit and move on....
