by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 16, 2016 | Footie
THE board had just gone up showing four minutes of added time as Daniel Sturridge fed James Milner in the penalty area, writes JOEL RABINOWITZ. His first touch was heavy, just keeping the ball in play as he floated the ball to the back post, where Dejan Lovren,...
by John Gibbons | Apr 15, 2016 | Footie
WHO can believe it. Those Reds. Those Tricky Reds. Liverpool were outplayed and outclassed. Someone needed to show them the way to go home. I said to competition winner Tom that we didn’t want to score before half time. Once we were losing by two our best chance...
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...
