THIS is what I remember. A free-kick just outside the Oxford penalty area, no more than five yards from the angle of the box. John Barnes and Peter Beardsley standing over the ball, weighing up options, full of confidence, full of intent. The yellow-shirted wall, its...
HAVE you ever been in the presence of greatness? Everything looks different, everything seems different, everything feels different. You cannot escape or ignore the enormity of a person whose aura taps you on the shoulder and follows you around. Have you ever been in...
IT’S silly season. That’s what everyone calls the period in between the end of the last campaign and — at the very least — the release of the fixtures for the next one. This summer we’ve also got the Euros to distract us, so maybe that will help some...
DURING the football season itself — when Liverpool FC are my first, last and always — I have zero interest in international football. It is only a needless distraction from the main event. An interloper in a perfectly sufficient festival of red-rooted...
ON February 21, 2015, Ken Meech, a 50-year-old sheet metal worker from Cleethorpes, travelled to London to attend the Barnet v Grimsby Town game. As a Mariners fan, Ken — along with the 968 other travelling Grimsby supporters — wasn’t going to miss this...
WITH the footie season now over, transfer rumours in full swing and the countdown to Euro 2016 ticking away, we thought the time was right to ask Anfield Wrap contributors and friends what they made of the Liverpool season just gone. With two managers, two cup finals,...
FRIDAY evening sees France v Romania on the telly and the start of the 2016 European Championships. Tournament football is great, isn’t it? I’ve seen people say they think it’s rubbish and that they hated ‘The X World Cup’ because it wasn’t very entertaining. So I...
THIS week marks 29 years since Liverpool paid Watford £900,000 for the services of John Charles Bryan Barnes, a player who proved to be one of the finest ever to pull on the red of our club. The Jamaican-born winger clocked up 407 appearances for Liverpool in...
THIS week marks 29 years since Liverpool paid Watford £900,000 for the services of John Charles Bryan Barnes, a player who proved to be one of the finest ever to pull on the red of our club. The Jamaican-born winger clocked up 407 appearances for Liverpool in 10 years...
WITH the footie season now over, transfer rumours in full swing and the countdown to Euro 2016 ticking away, we thought the time was right to ask Anfield Wrap contributors and friends what they made of the Liverpool season just gone. With two managers, two cup finals,...
