THEY made us look ordinary. Since the word “ordinary” has been in my footballing vocabulary it’s been a pejorative. It’s also today something which is done to you. It’s something you don’t want to be but Bramall Lane happens and a muscular...
FOOTBALL in 2014 is a 24/7 all-consuming monster. If you are involved in the game at the highest level, that monster is there at every turn; in your face: watching, listening, examining facial expressions and toiling over every word. Why? It’s waiting. Ready to say...
NEIL ATKINSON, Gareth Roberts, John Gibbons and Phil Blundell are in the tower to reflect on Real Madrid’s absolute pasting of Liverpool Football Club before looking forward to the list of Hull. Music this week from The Baltic States and Carl Moorcroft Download issue...
Neil, John and Andy sit down with Stephen Warnock to chat about his football career. Karl Coppack on the Liverpool accent, or rather, accents. Neil Atkinson on the book launch of ‘Make Us Dream’ Samantha Brocklehurst on the underground phenomen of...
1976 was the epicentre of success for the ‘The Real Thing’. Liverpool’s very own soul, come brit funk, come disco, come R&B phenomenon that are credited by the founding father of ‘Mojo’ magazine, Paul Du Noyer, as the band that restored Liverpool’s musical...
BRENDAN RODGERS and some of his players should be buying Mario Balotelli a pint at some point this week. It’s the least they could do for the deserved scrutiny he has unwittingly helped them to avoid. Naively swapping shirts a few seconds too early has unsurprisingly...
I wasn’t going to write this straight after the match. For many reasons, I wasn’t going to write this. I wasn’t going to write this. I was going to wait until morning. Wait until I’d calmed down a bit. I certainly wasn’t going to write it...
WE walk to the ground full of hope, predictions are flying around on the scorelines and they are mostly in favour of The Reds. We do this more based on positivity than logic. Its simply more fun to go to a game thinking you are going to win. But its also based on past...
EARLIER in the week, Brendan Rodgers described how Mario Balotelli had worked ‘like a lion’ in training during the international break, writes KAMURAN KULAVUZ. I’ve looked into some of the traits associated with the lion and have picked out several holes in the...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined by Andy Heaton, Mike Nevin, Adam Smith and Si Steers in the aftermatch of the chaos of Loftus Road and they pick the bones out Liverpool’s shambolic defence before looking towards the visit of Real Madrid. Download Issue 12 of #TAW...
England Crash Out Leaving Spain v Argentina | The Breakfast Wrap LIVE
The Anfield Wrap’s Live Breakfast Wrap on the morning after England exited the World Cup at the hands of Argentina, conceding two late goals having taken the lead in the semi-final and coming agonisingly close to reaching their first World Cup final since 1966.
