by The Anfield Wrap | Oct 5, 2017 | Footie
The Anfield Wrap is on the merch with Jürgen’s army… Visit our online shop this weekend and get 10 per cent off everything, using discount code TAW10. From T-shirts to mugs and more, everything in store is discounted using the code. The sale ends at...
by The Anfield Wrap | Oct 5, 2017 | Footie
KEITH SALMON “THERE are places I remember all my life”. Rottach Egern will forever be one of those for me and my lad Charlie. His first trip to Europe to watch The Reds brought us to the beautiful town on the banks of Lake Tegernsee some 35 miles south of Munich....
by Ben Johnson | Oct 2, 2017 | Footie
SO, what are you going to do now that we have all given up footie? I mean, it’s a bit of a blow and that, seen as we talk about it, think about it, tweet about it, sing about it and play it for probably 80 per cent of our miserable fucking lives but you know, we...
by Neil Atkinson | Oct 1, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
THERE are days when it just gnaws and gnaws and then suddenly kills. There have been existential masterpieces which cannot match the sheer profound sense of desolation that last 10 minutes had for Liverpool and the worldwide diaspora of supporters. Feeling both young...
by David Segar | Oct 1, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
ANOTHER day, another game and another 90 minutes where you couldn’t relax for a second. Coming a day after Tottenham comfortably won 4-0, and Manchester United comfortably won 4-0, Manchester City won away at Chelsea, and on the same day that Arsenal gained an easy...
by Josh Sexton | Oct 1, 2017 | Footie
LIVERPOOL travelled to St James’ Park knowing that Rafa Benitez’s side would be set up to frustrate. That is a fact. The problem is Liverpool never seem to have a plan in these sort of games to break down sides that play in such a way and then a very familiar pattern...
by The Anfield Wrap | Oct 1, 2017 | Footie
THE Reds have got us on repeat at the moment. It’s hard to keep repeating the same criticisms over again but when the same problems are happening week in, week out, it’s hard to see it any other way. Anyway, here’s how Anfield Wrap contributors saw...
by Josh Sexton | Sep 29, 2017 | Footie
WHAT are the qualities that make somebody the ideal candidate to captain a football team? Leadership is the first that springs to mind, but what’s the best way to demonstrate leadership on a football pitch? Is it being vocal, barking orders at teammates, letting them...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 29, 2017 | Footie
WHEN I was young I had a dream. Like most people who support Liverpool FC I dreamed of pulling on the red jersey and running out onto the hallowed Anfield turf as You’ll Never Walk Alone is being belted out by the sell-out crowd, writes PHILIPPA SMALLWOOD. I have...
by Michael Nevin | Sep 29, 2017 | Footie
SO, Liverpool and Newcastle this weekend. Without question, the starkest, most aesthetically-pleasing collision of football colours. The statement flamboyance of all red against the sterner but similarly striking black and white stripes. A dream for the fantasist and...
