by Rob Gutmann | Nov 29, 2016 | Footie
TIME is the killer. Liverpool fans have lived in a state of non-league title winning angst for 26 years. It’s something we could have done without. It’s a burden and then some, yet its weight has never broken us. Liverpool FC still feels like Liverpool FC. To me,...
by John Gibbons | Nov 28, 2016 | Footie
MY HEAD HURTS. Friday night was The Tea Street Band at Camp and Furnace. Afterwards some impossibly good DJs came on and I danced round Coats with Kyle Percy and his missus until there was no one else there. I don’t know what time I got in but it wasn’t...
by Ben Johnson | Nov 28, 2016 | Footie
BIG seasons, league championship seasons are built on consistency first and foremost. Scattered through them there are defining moments that are looked back on time and again. Moments in time where your watch seems to stop and the actual consequences and gravity of...
by David Segar | Nov 28, 2016 | Footie
THEY say every cloud has a silver lining. That good always comes out of bad. That when a door closes, a window opens — which is more a sign of shoddy workmanship than optimism, but there we are. When Phil Coutinho smacked his foot against Didier Ndong (who with...
by The Anfield Wrap | Nov 28, 2016 | Footie
SINCE his arrival from Charlton Athletic back in the summer of 2015, Joe Gomez has had his fair share of ups and downs, writes PETER TSCHEREWIK. Having featured in his first competitive outing for Liverpool’s Under-23s in over a year last week, the questions remains...
by Karl Coppack | Nov 28, 2016 | Footie
IN April 1990, Liverpool beat QPR 2-1 at Anfield. A John Barnes penalty won the game and, by extension, the league with two games to go to finally see off the threat of – yes – Aston Villa. All wrapped up to the extent that Kenny brought himself off the bench for the...
by Neil Atkinson | Nov 26, 2016 | Footie, Match Review
HUNG on at the whistle. Hung on to give one more ‘is right’ and one more ‘cop for that’ and one more ‘up the Reds’. Hung on to see the manager and the captain in the middle of the pitch and to see them give it the big one, and I...
by Andy Heaton | Nov 26, 2016 | Footie
The match ratings from Liverpool’s 2-0 win over Sunderland. Loris Karius: 8 Another clean sheet for the young German, clearly gives no fucks what you think and good for him. Two decent saves in each half in angled one v one situations. Bar giving a soft corner...
by Michael Nevin | Nov 25, 2016 | Footie
APRIL 14, 2016, was a terrible day for me. Driven to the point of insanity with toothache, I’m lying in bed when I get a text which reveals Borussia Dortmund, who we play tonight, are secretly training about 400 yards from my house — at Marine AFC in Crosby. For...
by Joel Rabinowitz | Nov 25, 2016 | Footie
EVERY so often, in different walks of life, an individual comes round who turns out to define a generation. In football, a player might go down as one of the all-time greats to play the sport. Steven Gerrard is certainly one of those figures, yet his is a legacy which...
