WE are the champions, the champions of Europe. Jürgen Klopp said he wanted us to forget about Madrid after pre season. Well soz abar us. Anfield wanted a party and the players wanted to entertain. A celebration of brilliance and excellence was what we were served up...
HERE we are again. The summer was boss, weren’t it? Unbearable bastards everywhere sixing there head off. Spent circa 30 per cent of Glastonbury pretending to lift the European Cup. Flags all over the gaff getting pictures taken, six fingers erected all over the...
IT’S time. When football is handed back to us. When it becomes ours once more. When what happens in the ground tops anything else. How it should be. The close season has always been barren by definition; a period pre-internet (stick with it, kids) that once featured...
I’VE always felt that the first game of a new season is the most special. I’ll bore on about it at the beginning of each new campaign. The first fixture is the one to be most eagerly anticipated. There’s something timelessly pure about the moment just before the first...
IN the days that followed the European Cup final, there was one player in particular that we continually thought about. Local lad Trent Alexander-Arnold had just lived out his dreams and all of ours at just 20 years old. The Anfield Wrap wanted to celebrate this. We...
IT is a fabled story. May 26, 2005. The day after Liverpool have triumphed in the most adverse and unimaginable Champions League final in history, winning on penalties after being 0-3 down at half time to AC Milan in Istanbul. So improbable, in fact, that on the day...
HOW was your break? Did you have one? Go anywhere nice? There are people who can’t have footballing holidays. For them there’s no respite once the final ball of the season has been kicked or, in our case, the trophy has been lifted to an expectant crowd one more time...
WELL, I had a lovely Champions of Europe summer. How was yours? In the years in between World Cups and European Championships, the summer break usually drags on unmercilessly, but by the time I had finished watching all the footage from Madrid, it was the end of July....
IT’S mad how even a game of football you convince yourself you aren’t arsed about can draw you in like that. Make no mistake, winning that game meant everything until the final whistle blew. You wouldn’t catch many Liverpool supporters moping around after the fact,...
HELLO. Good to be back. Enjoyed that. Shall we? Let’s. It’s right in front of us when Kyle Walker scissor kicks it off the line. He’ll play 40 more games this season but he may not once manage a better bit of defending. It truly is game-saving stuff,...
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.
