BILL Shankly once likened the pain in the wake of an important defeat to cutting your finger: “It’s very sore to start with. After a few days it heals up. And then after a week you’ve forgotten, until the next match.” One of the great man’s less-heralded quotes, and...
NOTHING in football ever happens soon enough. Manchester City have already won the league. Sunderland needed to hold crisis talks after just 180 minutes of this campaign. Philippe Coutinho is “overrated, underwhelming and like a schoolboy.” Raheem Sterling is more...
SECOND teams. The idea of supporting a second team has come up a few times for me lately and it’s interesting that many fans screw up their face at the very idea, adopting an expression akin to one they’d use if forced to wear a stranger’s underwear (I...
ALMOST three months ago to the day, I wrote an article looking at the types of signings that had been a success for us in recent(ish) years and whether this could form a strategy for us this summer. If you can’t be bothered reading it again, it concluded, based on...
“IN mathematics and digital electronics, a binary number is a number expressed in the binary numeral system, or base-2 numeral system, which represents numeric values using two different symbols: typically 0 (zero) and 1 (one).” In today’s game, too many football fans...
THERE we go then on the Newstalk website. Philippe Coutinho. Too lightweight and like a schoolboy. It’s immediately tiring, but it does need to be said that the diminutive Brazilian isn’t above criticism and that he was both poor and a dope — a big,...
SOMETIMES you write because you think something and you want to put it over to other people. Sometimes you write because you are trying to work something out and you just don’t know. Below is most definitely the latter. It’s about transfers, net spend and...
AS the old cliché goes, home is where the heart is. And there’s nothing more heart-breaking than humiliation on your own doorstep. When Liverpool play at Anfield — our patch, our city, our ground — we expect to win the match. No matter who the...
LIVERPOOL Ladies were defeated 2-0 at the Academy Stadium by Manchester City Women in their final Continental Tyres Cup group game. Scouser and former Everton Ladies star Toni Duggan scored a first-half penalty for City, before Isabel Christianson sealed the victory...
FINAL whistle goes and I’m furious. Furious with Liverpool, furious with them for losing when there’s a big Saturday night planned, for placing that in jeopardy. I’m furious with them because Basement Jaxx are playing in Sefton Park and they...
Iraola’s First Press Conference | The Anfield Wrap
This week’s Anfield Wrap is brought to you on the day of Andoni Iraloa’s first press conference as Liverpool manager, in which the Spaniard hit all the right notes in front of a packed press room.
To reflect on the manager comments and look forward to his start at LFC John Gibbons is joined by Jake Nolan, Keifer MacDonald and Ian Salmon.Also in the show, Neil Atkinson talks to Dan Hewitt about his new book ‘Left to Rot’.
