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....
THERE was a moment in the England v Colombia match last week which really got under my ribs. It was one of those moments where you sense an inevitable doom which will colour the coming months in a very negative light. My stomach fell away like an open lift shaft and,...
GOALKEEPERS seem to be all the rage at the moment. With the World Cup knockout stages getting off to a flyer, Sunday’s action left two Premier League ‘keepers with questions to answer. For Manchester United’s David de Gea those questions have mostly come from back in...
IN this World Cup wasteland of real Liverpool FC news, something piqued my interest, writes SIMON ALKIN. During part one of The Anfield Wrap’s Transfer Committee shows, an idea presented itself that seems to be brewing recently in at least a portion of the supporter...
THE story of England at Italia 90 cannot be told without considering happenings off the field, writes SIMON HART in a chapter from his new book, World in Motion: The Inside Story of Italia 90. Only five years had passed since the Heysel Stadium disaster, when a surge...
IT’S not really where fans thought the club would be, writes SAM McGUIRE. We’re into the second week of June and Liverpool have made just one new signing to add to the incoming Naby Keita. The way in which the club tied up Fabinho painted a picture of a...
FOR many of those that regularly go to watch Liverpool home and away, the battle scars from standing in sections not fit for that purpose have become a bit of a joke. Cuts and bruises from tumbling into, and over, shin-high backs of seats are often part of the brag...
FOLLOWING The Reds across Europe isn’t a new proposition for the Scouse contingent, writes STEPHEN WALMSLEY. It’s a sacred practice steeped in tradition, from the icy roads of Reykjavik in the ’60s to the sunny shores of the Mediterranean and beyond...
SO, some cruel fucker in the Anfield Wrap office has somehow come to the conclusion that what my delicate, fragile, mental health really needs at this point in my Kyiv recovery is to think about those Redshite bastards and how they have got on this season, and give...
Heartbreak For Congo & Glasner To Forest | The Breakfast Wrap LIVE
On your Thursday ‘Breakfast Wrap’ on the morning after England broke Congolese hearts and Belgium staged a late comeback against Senegal.
Neil Atkinson is joined by Teza Simukulwa and John Gibbons to reflect on yesterdays fixtures before trying to make sense of what’s going on at Nottingham Forest.