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...
by Rob Gutmann | Sep 29, 2017 | Footie
I’M not sure I can quite recall a spell like this. The performances from the start of the season up until now have been fairly consistent. 10 games that Liverpool have dominated, bar one (at Manchester City where we had to play with 10 men for most of the...
by Adam Smith | Sep 28, 2017 | Footie
THE Anfield Wrap’s Paul Cope wrote an article about Simon Mignolet on Wednesday which raised some interesting points. One particularly interesting point raised was that you can simultaneously think that Liverpool could do with a better number one but also not think...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 27, 2017 | Footie
FOOTBALL hasn’t quite been the same since the international break, writes LACHLAN BALLINGALL. Beating Arsenal 4-0 before it came around left the Anfield faithful feeling excited of what was to come, but Liverpool just haven’t kicked on since. Tuesday night’s...
