by John Gibbons | Sep 19, 2016 | Footie
WHATEVER day or time the football is I’m itching from the time I wake up. Rob Gutmann says it’s called a match day for a reason, and he is right. It consumes the day. Not just the football, of course, but how you are getting there. Who you are meeting and...
by Ben Johnson | Sep 19, 2016 | Footie
LEADERSHIP; it’s easy isn’t it? Means nothing doesn’t it? We have all heard the refrain of the washed up, over the hill, jobs for the boys brigade banging on about the players needing to sort it out for themselves — “once they cross that white line it’s out of...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 17, 2016 | Footie
A NEW(ish) one, this, taking 10 talking point from yesterday’s game. We asked TAW contributors to message us on the final whistle as Liverpool outrun, out-thought and out-scored Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. This is what we got back: 1. A Positive From Mr Negative...
by Neil Atkinson | Sep 17, 2016 | Footie, Match Review
LIVERPOOL in London for the third time this season already and for the third time they are clearly the better football team; for the second time they pick up the points, their superiority deserved. It’s fast becoming a season where that looks like it will be the test....
by Andy Heaton | Sep 16, 2016 | Footie
THE gnarly, narky Reds leave London, again, with three points in the back bin. Looking more and more assured every week are Jürgen Klopp’s increasingly street-wise upstarts. Here are your ratings, then: Simon Mignolet: 7 Just doesn’t look comfortable with the ball at...
by Josh Sexton | Sep 16, 2016 | Footie
Liverpool beat Chelsea 2-1, but managed to make it as nervy as they possibly could in doing so. The heart rate wasn’t at a safe level for much of that. Here’s how it went, though. 18.28: Before the match it was revealed that Roberto Firmino wouldn’t...
by Josh Sexton | Sep 16, 2016 | Footie
IT’S the Reds first mad Friday night matchday of the season and as such there’s not actually much going on, as everybody sits and waits for the match to get underway. We’ll cover everything that has happened here for you, though, so read on. Sounds...
by Sean Rogers | Sep 16, 2016 | Footie
JÜRGEN Klopp never goes into any football game accepting a point. You’ve seen that in the performances at Manchester City, Chelsea and Borussia Dortmund last season. Even when we’re pinned back, it’s not the way he wants to play. He wants to come out and be on the...
by Michael Nevin | Sep 16, 2016 | Footie
IN the summer, I chronicled that one of Jürgen Klopp’s prime tasks this season was to eradicate the fear factor that has held The Reds back in recent seasons. It could also be argued an issue with players’ mentality at Liverpool stretches back much further — the...
by Josh Sexton | Sep 15, 2016 | Footie
IT’S the eve of Sky’s shit-show ‘Friday Night Football’, though this time the Mighty Reds will be gracing our screens — and a pitch — as they do battle with Roman Abramovich’s purse strings. After their feisty pre-season...
