by Martin Fitzgerald | Apr 15, 2016 | Footie
ALL right, everyone. Here’s five thoughts on that Liverpool game that’s just happened. 1) Me, me, me I woke up in London this morning, had lunch in Nottingham, and arrived in Liverpool at about 6:30pm. Weighed down by travelling, and an inbox that never...
by Neil Atkinson | Apr 15, 2016 | Footie
WHAT a week. What a gang of lads. What a set of Reds. Did you have a little cry? I know I did. 4-3 and I am full of joy, that angry joy, that ‘stitch that’ joy, that joy unconfined, that joy that is the language of heaven with the noise of hell, that joy...
by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 14, 2016 | Footie
Dortmund (h) Morning seems strange, almost out of place. Searched hard for you and your special ways. These days, these days Ian Curtis (Joy Division & England, 1980) God knows what Ian was on about. He was mooching about in Macclesfield/Manchester neck of the...
by Craig Hannan | Apr 13, 2016 | Footie
DEMAND outweighs supply when we consider a certain kind of striker. The type sought after by all but who usually gravitates towards Europe’s elite. The sort of forward whose presence will instantly elevate others around him, and who has the ability to illuminate any...
by Melissa Reddy | Apr 13, 2016 | Footie
THERE is always a then and now. Regardless of the ever-changing landscape of the game, that juxtaposition is one of football’s constants. Even the profession of covering the sport has its sepia-tinted throwback and high-definition reality. Journalists reporting on a...
by Simon Hughes | Apr 13, 2016 | Footie
BRENDAN Rodgers resisted the ray of warm sunshine that flashed through the window in front of him by wearing a long, grey coloured mac. Perching himself on a table he began to confidently explain how his Swansea City team had secured their Premier League future...
by David Segar | Apr 13, 2016 | Footie
THURSDAY brings with it Liverpool’s biggest European game since the 2010 UEFA Cup semi-final with Atletico Madrid. Little did we know when Diego Forlan was denying us the chance to batter Roy Hodgson’s Fulham in the final that it would be the last time the Reds would...
by Michael Nevin | Apr 13, 2016 | Footie
THIRTY ONE years ago today. The 1985 FA Cup semi-final. Probably the most raw, intense atmosphere and drama I have ever experienced. I doubt it will ever be beaten. I’m not sure I even want it surpassed for it belongs in a different age when, pre-Heysel and...
by Ian Salmon | Apr 12, 2016 | Footie
I HAVEN’T written anything on here for a couple of weeks. I’d love to think you’ve missed me but my ego’s not quite that rampant. My ego is, in fact, non-rampant enough to have looked at the stuff on the site and gone, ‘yeah, was going to...
by John Gibbons | Apr 12, 2016 | Footie
DORTMUND holds a special place in my heart, as I’m sure it does for many others around my age. My first European final in 2001, the club’s first since 1985, and a crazy day and night where it lashed down and there were an improbable number of goals...