IT’S not eloquent, and it’s not inventive, but sometimes the ‘ooooohs’ and ‘aaahhhhs’ are the only things that suffice, writes MELISSA REDDY. The tap of superlatives runneth dry, and you’re fresh out of smart 140-character odes. You look around the ground, at...
Brendan can bank on a bigger bid for Bolasie — Pardew AFTER Liverpool were linked with a £10million bid for Crystal Palace’s Yannick Bolasie this morning by the Daily Mail, Alan Pardew used his press conference later on to hike up the price for the...
WELL, it’s rather nice to be writing the first of my Friday columns on the eve of Liverpool’s Wembley weekend. I wrote earlier this week about attending my first FA Cup semi-final in 1980 and I’ve done the sums to calculate this is my tenth. Despite my advancing...
LIVERPOOL are watching the situation at Chelsea with midfielder Oscar, according to the Daily Hate. Juventus are also reported to be watching the Brazilian, 23, but Sky Sports have run a story this afternoon saying the £25m signing from Internacional is happy at...
PLAYER contracts: worth the paper they’re written on? In the modern game they are there to serve a triple purpose — remunerate the player, provide him with an exit strategy (release clause) and to help the owning/selling club ‘protect’ the...
THOUSANDS of Reds will head south on Sunday to watch Liverpool take on Aston Villa in the FA Cup semi final. We asked four Anfield Wrap contributors to write about a memorable past last-four clash in the competition. MIKE NEVIN: LIVERPOOL v ARSENAL 1980 I DOUBT my...
A PICTURE of two Premier League footballers holding (legal) shisha pipes about six months ago pockets you £3,000. Especially when you play one tabloid newspaper off against another. So now you know. In other news, Mario Balotelli — a player Brendan Rodgers wants...
WHAT a strange game of football that was. Far too end of season far too in the season. Let’s put it down to semi-final distractions… Anyway, some scores and then some words that may or may not reflect them. SIMON MIGNOLET: 9 Meeting me and Andy in the week had the...
AS a contest it was hard to know to expect from Liverpool vs Newcastle. One side which has been inconsistent and a little impotent against poorer opposition at home and the other side one which appears to have downed tools for the campaign insofar as they ever had...
IT’S getting sorted in the summer. They’ll talk about it in the summer. What if the summer is too late? Hands up, I don’t know anything about negotiating contracts. I haven’t sat in a room with an agent and a player and got down to the nitty gritty of salaries,...
