PODCAST: ESCAPISM

PODCAST: ESCAPISM

NEIL ATKINSON is joined by Mike Nevin, Steve Graves and Rob Gutmann to discuss Gerrard’s big move, Jordan’s big bollocking and a big, big three points Download Issue 12 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at app.theanfieldwrap.com for other devices. Like what we...
LIVERPOOL: A ROUTINE WIN? NOT FOR ME, CLIVE

LIVERPOOL: A ROUTINE WIN? NOT FOR ME, CLIVE

A WIN is a win? Sometimes a win is a win and nothing more can be gleaned from it. Sometimes it’s worth a little bit more than that – even when it’s the type of performance that usually provokes the response that “a win is a win”. Casablanca. 1942. Starring Dirk Bogart...
AND HERE’S TO YOU JORDAN HENDERSON

AND HERE’S TO YOU JORDAN HENDERSON

NOBODY likes to admit they’re wrong do they? So hard nosed and infallible are people’s opinions on football – and I am of course generalising here – that perhaps many are afraid such an admission will destroy their reputation and credibility as a voice,...
PODCAST: PATIENCE IN SHORT SUPPLY

PODCAST: PATIENCE IN SHORT SUPPLY

ANDY HEATON, stepping in for Neil Atkinson, was joined by Rob Gutmann, Gareth Roberts and Kent Riley after another defeat and look towards hopefully a return to winning ways against West Brom at the weekend Download Issue 12 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at...
BALOTELLI CRITICS ARE JUST SO LAZY

BALOTELLI CRITICS ARE JUST SO LAZY

GRAEME SOUNESS, Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher and that no mark troll Adrian Durham are just some of the public figures who have thrown their hats into the public ring this week. Plenty of others have already had their say. Criticism is rife and it’s anything but...
BASEL 1 LIVERPOOL 0

BASEL 1 LIVERPOOL 0

FINISHING second last season meant Liverpool were back in the Champions League. We’d been out of it five years and now we were back. That great tournament that makes everything else seem a bit rubbish. It doesn’t really sink in then though. Especially when...

LIVERPOOL: IS ALLEN THE KEY?

WITH the sun beaming on a hot August day in 2012, the future looked bright as Brendan Rodgers took charge of his first Premier League game as Liverpool manager against West Bromwich Albion, writes MATT KENNY. Much of the pre-season talk had focused on how quickly...
MIGNOLET: WAS GARY NEVILLE RIGHT?

MIGNOLET: WAS GARY NEVILLE RIGHT?

By David Preece CRITICISMS are to goalkeepers what cricket balls are to batsmen. You’re constantly fending them off. Sometimes the criticisms hit hard and leave a bruise on your confidence that can take a while to disperse, only massaged away by a combination of...
LIVERPOOL: PATIENCE IS BITTER BUT ITS FRUIT IS SWEET

LIVERPOOL: PATIENCE IS BITTER BUT ITS FRUIT IS SWEET

CATCHING one like that so late in a game always reminds me of that punch Herol ‘Bomber’ Graham took against Julian Jackson, in a WBA World Middleweight Title fight in Benalmadena, late 1990. The one where he was spark out before he hit the floor totally planked out,...