SOMETIMES, you play the game out beforehand in your head. You don’t particularly want to, but you can’t help it. You’re doing the shopping, travelling to work, pretending to listen to your boss, your mind wanders, thinking about the big game, imagining what might...
IT’S a phrase that has long since fell into cliché, and for many the name of the man that delivered it will mean little in the modern day. But retro, clichéd, or otherwise, Jimmy Greaves still had it dead right when he routinely described football as a “funny old...
WHAT did it feel like? What was it? How did it feel? It felt like two dropped. It felt increasingly frustrating. It felt like bad subs. It felt like Ferguson at Anfield. Where we are United and they are us. What it was? The point that puts us top. Four points from...
Alisson: 8 That is some save. I mean, how many times have you seen The Reds do alright at Old Trafford and then some bellend wafts past your ‘keeper and slots? That is a brilliant save. Brilliant. Andy Robbo: 7 I reckon he might be a T100 there, you know. I...
THIS is the end game. Not literally the end game but the beginning of the end game. We could really do with starting the beginning of the end game by winning. It’s fun to bill games as metaphorical cup finals. Often it’s just a dramatic device. On extremely rare...
THEY call Anfield, “Juanfield”, you know. In reference to Juan Mata’s brace in a 2-1 Manchester United victory at Anfield back in March 2015. I’m completely fine with it, as I generally always have been with the Man United rivalry if I’m being honest. As a millennial,...
EVEN the sight of one of Liverpool’s most famous flags wasn’t quite enough to inspire Liverpool to victory last night. Joey might have eaten the frogs legs and made the Swiss roll, but it turns out Bayern might take a bit more Munchen than Gladbach did in...
IT’S funny how people see games so differently. As the teams left the pitch on Tuesday, the BT Sport commentator exclaimed “advantage Bayern Munich!” Like it was practically a fait accompli. That was strange. I felt the opposite. The German’s played well at Anfield —...
HOW do you deal with pressure? How do you take the expectation and make something of it? Liverpool didn’t have all the answers tonight, but at what is ostensibly half time in this Champions League fixture, the question is very much set. Pressure is what Bayern Munich...
Alisson: 7 Saved one in that Big Joel twatted it at his iron chest from a yard and it bounced out rather than in. Done a fair bit of fannying about with it at his feet, but in fairness I’m into that. Trent: 7 Plays these games like he knows The Reds are mustard, and...
The Anfield Wrap’s free podcast reflecting on the demoralising draw against Burnley at Anfield where Liverpool continue to frustrate at home against promoted opposition.
In a performance which has elicited some very strong reactions from Liverpool supporters, Neil Atkinson is joined by Kieran Molynuex, Ian Salmon and Ian Ryan to make sense of Liverpool’s struggles and how they once again emerged without three points.
