LONG before kick off, long before the warm-up, you could feel it. The inevitability. It swirled and settled in the air. The cliff and its edge circled the atmosphere. At 5pm, Anfield was silent and gloomy. It was full of emptiness, and even when everyone took their...
LIVERPOOL go through with a wimper and some sore legs for a big game on Saturday. I really don’t know how to score most of them. How do you score lads who don’t seem to know what they are being asked to do? Who are largely passing to their team-mates, but...
WHEN the Reds win we… Yeah. Listen, what do you do when you pick a strong-ish side in order to provide confidence and then that happens? Because these lads now have that against them along with 120 minutes in their legs before Saturday and the match at Anfield...
WHEN you talk about football it’s important to remember that there’s a difference between what could happen and what does happen. In no area of the game is that more important than when discussing the financial implications of an ever-expanding set of commercial...
GIVEN Liverpool skipped the League Cup second round due to playing in Europe this season, and the fact you’d expect many of the minnows to be out by now, a home tie against Carlisle United — positioned 10th in League Two — is in theory about as good...
HERE we go again, you might think. I have used this saying before but no club is a prisoner of its past as much as Liverpool. Whether it is the bronze bust of Bill Shankly that surveys Melwood’s reception, the replica of the fifth European Cup that stands on a plinth...
WITH Liverpool in Europa League action last week and League Cup this, it offers the club the chance to blood some of the players that have emerged from The Academy. But is that a production line that is proving successful enough? That’s just one of the topics...
BRENDAN RODGERS received some unlikely backing from commentator John Motson. Motty, speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, revealed that he thinks there is a ‘conspiracy’ against the Liverpool manager and that some in the media have an ‘agenda’ against...
SOME fans want Jurgen Klopp. Others want Carlo Ancelotti. Not so many want to stick with Brendan Rodgers, it seems. With daily debate over the manager’s future dominating Liverpool supporters’ timelines, we asked regular Anfield Wrap contributors and...
ALRIGHT then — part two of all this. Everyone’s talking about Brendan Rodgers and his Liverpool future so we’ve asked our writers and contributors to nail their opinion on the manager to the mast. This is part two of a feature where we ask: should...
