by Josh Sexton | Aug 29, 2017 | Footie
THE confirmation of a deal being agreed for Liverpool to sign Naby Keita on July 1, 2018, brought to an end one of the longest-running transfer sagas of The Reds’ summer. The deal, rumoured to comprise of the Guinean’s £48million release clause plus a £7m...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 27, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
THE first big league occasion of the season. The first big win. Talking in general terms? Not quite. Last season last year’s champions beat last season’s runners-up but this feels like a north west kind of a season, a north west kind of a campaign. I could...
by David Segar | Aug 27, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
LIVERPOOL absolutely tore Arsenal apart at Anfield, again. It’s becoming a regular occurrence, but no less pleasurable to witness. Yes, the Gunners had their problems with their midfielders deciding that defending was an optional extra, and Arsene Wenger’s bizarre...
by Andy Heaton | Aug 27, 2017 | Footie
SURPRISE surprise — sometimes the unexpected really does hit you between the eyes. Such was the disbelief around the rumours of a change of Liverpool goalkeeper for the Arsenal fixture at least a dozen Twitter accounts were checked and belief still didn’t set in...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 27, 2017 | Footie
WE’RE all human, and when a curve ball like the Liverpool No.1 being dropped for one of the biggest games of the season happens, it’s hard not to wonder why and worry about the impact on the game ahead. Good job The Reds cared not a jot about it all. Crowd...
by Rob Gutmann | Aug 25, 2017 | Footie
THERE has been an adage since 2014 that Arsenal represent gift opponents for Liverpool. It is true that the 5-1 dismantling of Arsene Wenger’s team in that year was so comprehensive that the after-shock of that event can still be felt. On the day it felt epoch...
by Michael Nevin | Aug 25, 2017 | Footie
LIVERPOOL FC and Anfield made sense to me on Wednesday night. I didn’t enjoy myself last Saturday against Crystal Palace. I had a whale of a time when Hoffenheim were our midweek visitors. Of course, there is something extraordinary about Europe, the Champions League,...
by Andy Heaton | Aug 24, 2017 | Footie
LIVERPOOL find themselves back in the Champions League after a comfortable aggregate victory by six goals to three over Hoffenheim, winning the return leg by four goals to two. In reality, having found themselves three goals to good within 21 minutes of the second leg...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 23, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
BRING. Bring on. Bring on your. Bring on your Internazionale. Liverpool are not immovable, never entirely not irresistible but good lord were they very good indeed at times this evening. The key times were these: 0 – 22. During that time they took the whole tie...
by David Segar | Aug 23, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
LIVERPOOL are back in the Champions League. Where this club belongs. Anfield deserves to host it. Jürgen Klopp deserves to manage in it. These players deserve to play in it. We deserve to watch it. And it will, and it will, and he will, and they will… and we will. I...
