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 main themes of Liverpool’s season has been the emergence of unlikely heroes. Daniel Sturridge has had something of a renaissance in 2018-19, reminding everyone what a world-class goalscorer he is amid conversations around Liverpool’s misfiring front three....
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,...
INTERNATIONAL breaks. Always there to dullen your weekend, injure your favourite players and give you one less excuse to avoid decorating the kitchen. Spain and England tried to light the fire of the UEFA Nations League with their five-goal thriller in Betis, but...
IN a world of neverending bickering and “banter”, of crisis seeking and an insatiable hunger for headlines that detail it all going wrong, perspective around football can be severely lacking at times. Bill Shankly – with tongue firmly placed in cheek, no doubt –...
“THAT’S not too cool for a manager. “If it works then it’s cool. I had a few centre halves who were able to do things a centre half should not do, like Mats Hummels constantly doing things which made no sense but he was really good in there. “Alisson is obviously a...
SEVERAL talking points have emerged in recent weeks following Liverpool’s most difficult run of fixtures in over a decade. From the underwhelming impact of some new signings to the ponderance of the midfield axis, this was a period of football which culminated in...
With Arne Slot under further pressure after another disappointing result at Anfield, dropping points again to promoted opposition and with certain candidates now available, if LFC do decide to make a change, who would they look to bring in?
Rob Gutmann hosts Ste Evans, Lola Katz-Roberts and Neil Atkinson.
