by Rob Gutmann | Oct 28, 2016 | Footie
IT’S a poor league this year. You hear that a lot. Or you hear that it was a poor competition a few years back, perhaps. A highly subjective relativism often delivered as if pure fact. I admit, the call always baffles me. I never understand the starting point. A poor...
by Adam Smith | Oct 27, 2016 | Footie
I’VE got a confession to make that will cause Robbo to call me a wool. I didn’t watch the match live on Tuesday night. I set up my box to record it, I gave my girlfriend my phone so I couldn’t accidentally read any messages and told everyone not to tell me the score....
by John Gibbons | Oct 26, 2016 | Footie
WHEN I started doing these I was aware that some weeks would be more exciting that others. That there was a distinct possibility for, say, Watford at home it might read “Went match, got chippy, went home” and Robbo would have to tell me that he can’t...
by Joel Rabinowitz | Oct 26, 2016 | Footie
JÜRGEN’S wild boys; a lethal attacking force who run like crazy and take opposition sides apart with fluid, dynamic, heavy-metal football. If only Klopp could fix Liverpool’s defence, then they could be serious title challengers. This has become the stock...
by Phil Blundell | Oct 26, 2016 | Footie
AND so another game passes where the Liverpool goalkeeper had basically nothing to do. We aren’t keeping many clean sheets but they’ll come – you simply don’t limit the opposition to as few real, big chances as we have the last month without it correcting itself...
by The Anfield Wrap | Oct 26, 2016 | Footie
TAW contributors with 10 talking points from Liverpool’s 2-1 win over Spurs in the League Cup fourth round at Anfield. Scouse Prams Fella with a massive pram, flashing lights, a blow up doll and a dog with a Liverpool kit on and shades. Keep dog prams Scouse....
by David Segar | Oct 25, 2016 | Footie, Match Review
THE League Cup can feel like a bit of a pain in the arse at times, but going into this season I wanted Liverpool to win it more than I ever have before. The penalty shoot-out loss to Manchester City last season was the first of two heartbreaks in Jürgen Klopp’s first...
by Andy Heaton | Oct 25, 2016 | Footie
THE player ratings from Liverpool’s 2-1 League Cup fourth round win over Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield. Simon Mignolet: 8 Thought he did very well and showed massive professionalism, given his current situation. Made a couple of very smart saves and has clearly...
by John Gibbons | Oct 25, 2016 | Footie
ANYONE had any rumoured team texts yet? You know the ones. Via a mate of the kit man’s arl fella who says Danny Ings is defo starting, before we get the team an hour prior to kick-off and he’s not even in the squad. Actually they seem quiet today. Which...
by The Anfield Wrap | Oct 24, 2016 | Footie
PHILIPPA SMALLWOOD I WAS going to write a piece about how great it is to be joint top of the Premier League table after nine games. How positive I feel about the men we are currently watching grace the football pitch, trying to stop the opposition from taking our...