PFC Ludogorets Razgrad. Liverpool’s five-year exile from the Champions League ends tomorrow with the visit of Bulgarian champions PFC Ludogorets Razgrad. Let’s call them Ludogorets. Oh Ludogorets, what a name. You, Ludogorets, are exactly what the Champions League...
Goalkeeper DAVID PREECE, who has played for a string of clubs including Sunderland, Aberdeen and current employers Lincoln, recalls the time a Liverpool legend turned up for training I’VE had my brushes with greatness. Some of them brief, some of them painful; some of...
WORLD-FAMOUS psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud once wrote a book called The Interpretation of Dreams. I’ve leafed through it, but there are very few mentions of football. I had a dream on Friday night and being rather rubbish at being a bloke, I decided to tell...
Last season, Liverpool’s best title challenge in a generation helped fired-up fans find their voice at the match. And that’s something to be celebrated, writes MARTIN FITZGERALD “They want to see the team winning – let’s not kid ourselves, we’re a small country, we’re...
RUBIK’S Cube opponents, we used to trip up against a lot of Rubik’s Cube opponents. Those type of games and opposition that common-sense states we shouldn’t struggle with, except we do. Teams that come to Anfield and have the temerity to score first, then...
I’M furious. Bloody furious. Reasons:1. The manager picked the wrong team.2. The wrong team were set up in the wrong way.3. The wrong team set up in the wrong way approached and started the game in the wrong manner.4. The wrong team set up in the wrong way that...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined for this week’s City Talk Podcast by Paul Cope, Mike Girling and John Gibbons on the eve of Liverpool’s 8 goal thriller against Villa. Music this week from The Cheap Thrills and Silent Sleep. The Cheap Thrills – O Paradise...
EVERYONE remembers their first game don’t they? I think I’ve told you mine but I’ll tell you again. May 1990, I’d just turned 8 years old, and my dad had two tickets for Liverpool vs QPR at Anfield. When he showed me them they may as well have...
WITH the departure of Daniel Agger back to Brondby we asked a few Anfield Wrap regulars to make their case as to who should replace the Dane as vice-captain. NEIL ATKINSON – GLEN JONO I’M A GLEN JOHNSON man. I’m also a Jordan Henderson man but you...
ON the TAW podcast in the aftermath of Liverpool’s defeat to Manchester City, Neil Atkinson and I debated the merits of using Steven Gerrard as a defensive midfielder. My argument was – and remains – that Gerrard is one of Liverpool’s best natural finishers. He can...
Salah’s future, summer exit talk, and inside insight from Lewis Steele, plus January pressure on Liverpool to add bodies. Guehi, Branthwaite, Wharton, Konaté’s contract, and who’s really on the radar.
Rob Gutmann hosts John Gibbons, Josh Sexton and Mike Kearney…
