by Paul Cope | Sep 27, 2017 | Footie
“THEY’RE not mutually exclusive.” I’ve found myself saying that phrase over and over again recently. I’ve noticed it tends to happen. I’ll say something once then it becomes my flavour of the month only, this time, I’ve been saying it for so long it’s become one of my...
by Neil Atkinson | Sep 26, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
WIN or die, the banner read before kick off. Win or die. Liverpool, endlessly contrary, chose neither. They come away from Moscow the better side but not the winning side; they come away from Moscow a side that has failed to win but one unlikely to die in the...
by David Segar | Sep 26, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
HOLD on while I dust off my template opening for most Liverpool games over the last few years. Something something unlucky. Something else poor finishing. Something or other incredible opposition goalkeeping, and then also sloppy goal conceded. Blah blah blah beer in...
by Andy Heaton | Sep 26, 2017 | Footie
SO sum that up? From the moment the Champions League draw was made and everyone started talking about how Liverpool had done alright alarm bells started ringing, because we’ve been here before and it’s not ended well. Of Liverpool’s last two sojourns into the...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 26, 2017 | Footie
ANOTHER story of missed chances for Liverpool in their second Champions League group game. For all the stick the defence get, and all the praise the attack get, The Reds have missed too many clear-cut chances in recent games. Anyway, here are Anfield Wrap contributors...
by Phil Greene | Sep 26, 2017 | Footie
FOOTBALL is a bit mad, isn’t it? Essentially, it’s 90 minutes of chaos and luck which is decided one way or another by a handful of defining moments. Whether a team wins, loses or draws comes down to their number 10 curling in a freekick, three players keeping their...
by Joel Rabinowitz | Sep 25, 2017 | Footie
THERE were numerous positives to take from Liverpool’s 3-2 victory against Leicester City. It was an utterly chaotic encounter which put an end to a fairly grim couple of weeks for Jürgen Klopp’s side. Defensive concerns remain, of course, but the sense of relief when...
by Rob Gutmann | Sep 25, 2017 | Footie
WORD is that Spartak Moscow are a bit rubbish. Champions of all Russia after 16 years of winning bugger all, the mardy Muscovites have celebrated their Premier League homecoming by turning to jelly. They aren’t so much defending their crown as pawning it to pay...
by Ben Johnson | Sep 25, 2017 | Footie
FOOTBALL has a way, every now and again, of conjuring up a defining match out of an otherwise routine game. A rhetoric builds, a pressure is exerted and all of a sudden, a precipice is presented with a couple of obvious options. Take your chance, leap into the unknown...
by Neil Atkinson | Sep 23, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
THAT. The Lads. They are The Lads. Getting to be The Lads. It’s something that happens to a football team, something that happens to any decent enterprise, ignore the gendered language or anything else you like, you’ve knocked round here long enough and...
