IT’S very early into a league season to be talking about “must-win” league games. Southampton away is a must-win game for Liverpool. And yet… And yet, isn’t this all really the false construct of a man or group of men deemed it must become this way? Sheikh Mansour and...
IT’S good to have it all back. Good to be in the midst of it all once again. After the ever-shorter post-season breather, last Friday, a familiar pilgrimage was made. To Anfield. To Liverpool FC. The pub was full of smiles. The Kop was full of flags. And just before...
I’M not sure where Jermaine Jenas has been for the past year. Joe Cole – on the other hand – I can hazard a guess at snazzy tailors which specializes in maroon-tinted suits, or maybe a gastro pub on the West End, telling people how “The Chels” ruled...
MAN alive. It meant nothing, then it meant everything, then it was roaringly special. The game crazy. The competition crazy. The extra time crazy. Quick things… The line. You may not like it but the line is an issue. Sometimes your greatest strength is your...
IT’S the Super Cup. It’s against Chelsea, who are led by the only man in Great Britain going baldy quicker than Joe Hart. I’m a baldy spotter by trade now. Can see them hairs getting finer from a mile away. Lampard will be lashing sun cream on his scalp before you can...
ONE of the best things about football is the way it produces the most unlikely of heroes. From Jerzy Dudek in Istanbul to Divock Origi in Madrid, it’s nigh on impossible to predict who will seize the glory. Sometimes the stories it conjures up are so...
“FOR me, he can be one of the most exciting talents in world football. I genuinely believe that. “You see a lot of good players, but this kid – for 19 years of age – he burst onto the scene at the World Cup, but we’d tracked him before that,...
DID you know the Super Cup was invented by a Dutch journalist in 1972? He pitched the idea to UEFA and after some deliberation they eventually went “what the hell, let’s do it”. “A super cup, you say…” I like the idea that early...
IT is a moment that will live in the annals of Liverpool FC history forever. The outswinging corner, the clacking of the cameras, the scramble as the ball bounces off Jan Vertonghen, and then a neat lay-off into the path of… DIVOCK ORIGI!!! Heads gone. Voices...
IT’S hard to know what to take from Friday night. While it felt as though Liverpool could have been 6-0 up at half time, it also felt like Norwich were able to get in behind more times than anybody in the home end would have liked – and of course they eventually...
The Anfield Wrap’s post-match reaction podcast after Marseilles 0 Liverpool 3 after the Reds travelled to the Stade Velodrome in the Champions League and emerged victorious.
