WALKING out. Walking along. Me, Ben Jono, Mike Girling, Sam Brockle. “Don’t really know what you say about that one.” Walking down towards the brow. “One of them. Got to write a match report.” “About that?” asks Ben Jono....
THIRTY-TWO years today, Steve Nicol first rippled the net in the Red, scoring the first of his 46 goals for Liverpool as Joe Fagan’s Reds won 1-0 away at QPR. I first remember taking in his gingery countenance in a January FA Cup game at Anfield in 1984. We were...
WHAT would you like to throw at Jürgen Klopp? The Yokozuna-like weight of expectation at Liverpool? No clean sheets in eight games prior to his arrival? Two anterior cruciate ligament injuries in two days? Not enough training time to translate his ideas? The familiar,...
LIVERPOOL’S third Europa League Group B game is a first look at Rubin Kazan — and Klopp’s first look at The Kop, or at least one that is singing to his tune. In fact, he will have a whole stadium of Liverpool fans to eye up and down, if he so...
I HAD never seen Jürgen Klopp in the flesh before he was unveiled as Liverpool’s manager. And there he was: tall, powerfully limbed; dressed immaculately, making Ian Ayre — the person presenting him — look slightly inadequate suddenly. Like Liverpool...
WE now know more about what a Liverpool side managed by Jürgen Klopp looks like. It runs a lot. Yesterday on The Tuesday Review (on Monday) Sean Rogers and Paul Cope talked at length about the work the Liverpool players got through at White Hart Lane, in particular...
WE should really have hated Howard Kendall. We should have resented the way he took over a disjointed, demoralised Everton and led them to the pinnacle of the game, at home and abroad. We should have begrudged how he galvanised a fan base that had been crying out for...
WE’VE produced hundreds of shows and published a couple of thousand articles since The Anfield Wrap was launched four years ago. And I reckon in all that time no-one’s EVER mentioned David Burrows. “Who?” you might well say, depending on when your Liverpool-supporting...
WHEN the most successful manager in the history of Everton Football Club passes away, thoughts inevitably turn to Liverpool FC’s relationship with our city rivals. It was a nice touch to see so many tributes to Howard Kendall over the weekend, with many Reds...
A DIFFICULT game to rate, really. In that we collectively looked good for periods, and collectively didn’t for others. But no-one ever said it was going to be easy. And sometimes a hero just needs to rise. Simon Mignolet 8 Clean sheet. Couple of great saves....
