by Rob Gutmann | Oct 12, 2017 | Footie
I’VE properly parked Liverpool FC for the past fortnight. The usually dreaded international break has provided welcome respite this time. It all feels a bit unnecessarily cruel at the moment and I’m just not enjoying it at all. Emerging from this mini hibernation...
by Paul Cope | Oct 11, 2017 | Footie
RIVALRY, according to the Oxford English dictionary, is defined as “competition for the same objective or for superiority in the same field”. The example it gives for the use of the word in context is “‘there always has been intense rivalry between the clubs”. Quite...
by Gareth Roberts | Oct 11, 2017 | Footie
IT’S usually a derogatory term used to shame the football fan whose support wanes when team performances do – the self-proclaimed fanatic that is not quite so keen when the going gets tough. At level eight of English football though, the term “fair weather fan” is...
by David Segar | Oct 10, 2017 | Footie
TWO years ago this week Jürgen Klopp took the managerial reigns at Liverpool, four days after Brendan Rodgers was sacked. To celebrate two years of Klopp, here’s an exclusive extract from David Segar’s new book “Kloppite: One Man’s Quest to...
by Ben Johnson | Oct 9, 2017 | Footie
LAST week, after Newcastle, I would have paid close to five figures to have a couple of weeks break from watching the Mighty Reds. The international break, for once, seemed like something I could really get behind; not that I would spend it watching England or...
by Michael Nevin | Oct 6, 2017 | Footie
IS it just me, or does the Liverpool FC song repertoire feel a bit tired? Without falling victim to the notion “it was better in my day”, when you regularly hear The Fields of Anfield Road rolled out thrice before half time on a European night, it does make you wonder...
by The Anfield Wrap | Oct 6, 2017 | Footie
NON-LEAGUE football is a very different beast to its Premier League big brother. While the rules are the same, the aim is the same, and it’s played on grass with 22 players, it’s a world away from the 24-7 televised soap opera of the top flight. It’s almost a sport...
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...
