MATCH REVIEW: CHELSEA 1 LIVERPOOL 1

TERRY’S header hits the net and Steve Graves turns to me and says: “What next?” What next indeed. What the hell next? What could be next? A wrecking ball sweeping through the boozer. A personalised rainstorm like in The Truman Show following you...

WACKER: THE SPIRIT OF SCOUSE – FRIDAY’S COLUMN

ON the infamous Panorama documentary, with the iconic black and white footage of a boisterous, swaying 1960s Kop, there is a reference to “Wacker – The Spirit of Scouse.” The term “Wack” (or Whack) is a precursor, taken from “The Sailors Farewell” printed in 1768, to...
FOOTBALL AND POLITICS: VOTING TO SAVE THE GAME

FOOTBALL AND POLITICS: VOTING TO SAVE THE GAME

FOOTBALL minus supporters is nothing so let’s begin with one, writes SIMON HUGHES. I bumped into an old friend last week — an Evertonian. He’s been a season ticket holder for as long as I’ve known him. That’s roughly a quarter of a century....

MEMPHIS DEPAY: LIVERPOOL’S LOSS IS OUR PAIN (AGAIN)

WELL there you go. We’ve done it again. We talked about this on The Anfield Wrap Unwrapped (TAW player, fiver a month, it’s quality, give it a go if you haven’t already); Tony Barrett had said that the negotiations with Memphis Depay had stalled a week ago. No...