THROUGHOUT my childhood Hillsborough was always there — like a nettle bush prickling at my consciousness in a field of many feelings. I was five years old in April 1989. I can’t remember the afternoon of the 15th at all, the terrible events. Strangely, I...
By Dylan DaCosta NOT good enough, impact sub, biggest goal threat, season over. The perception, and perhaps reality, of Danny Ings’ Liverpool career has changed multiple times already – and the lad has only spent a few months on the pitch. In the midst of the...
IT’S an enormous day. A momentous one, and one for which I, and many of us, were not prepared. I’ve always wondered what it would feel like. I pictured celebrations in city squares, hugging strangers and downing pint after pint after pint as those responsible,...
LIVERPOOL Ladies were held to a 2-2 draw by Sunderland Ladies in Widnes. Having raced into a 2-0 lead with goals from Caroline Weir and Laura Coombs, former Everton midfielder Brooke Chaplen struck either side of half time to give the visitors a share of the points....
HOW many of these games have we seen this year, eh? The Reds were totally, brilliantly dominant first half. A machine – a pressing wrecking ball of a machine that could have run over anyone. Newcastle couldn’t cope; Liverpool’s shape, organisation and pressing...
THERE is a lad in the Newcastle end who is going through absolute agony in the five minutes before the break. He catches my eye just after Newcastle put a good cross into the box but nothing comes of it. He dramatically half collapses, hangs around the neck of his...
DEARIE me, Liverpool. In such control and then they threw it away. I tweeted at half time that the next goal would be crucial, thinking if they got one they might get their tails up. Newcastle showing plenty of effort so next goal key. Fingers crossed for no injuries....
EVENING, everyone. Hope you’re all keeping well. Here’s Five from Fitzgerald on Liverpool 2 Newcastle 2. I wasn’t going to do it but then The Anfield Wrap’s Kate Forrester called me a lazy twat and threatened to beat me up. 1) Stranded A few...
RAFAEL Benitez and Jürgen Klopp are cut from the same cloth. Both are football obsessives; passion at their managerial core, but pragmatism at the root of their approach. As Liverpool embark on a new era under the open, charismatic extrovert Klopp, the more guarded...
HOW bright the sky looks. How green the grass. Smell that warming spring air. I think I might go outside and sit on my stoop and drink some lemonade. The Reds are coming up the hill boys. Like a threshing machine sything through the corn fields of the premier league....
