PODCAST: THE TRANSFER GAME

PODCAST: THE TRANSFER GAME

Get issue 10 of TAW’s monthly digital mag free from iTunes for iOS devices or from app.theanfieldwrap.com for everything else. NEIL ATKINSON assembled a crack TAW transfer committee and gave them a huge warchest to spend on players for LFC manager Brendan...

THE WORLD CUP PLAN

THEY’VE played the season out in Lisbon. Angel Di Maria marvellous, Diego Simeone magnificent, Diego Godin’s hairline a thing of minimalist beauty. I can’t stop thinking about Godin. The receding hairline the Spanish equivalent of Derek Mountfield’s moustache. I...

CITYTALK: STAGGERED

Host Neil Atkinson was joined in the studio in Liverpool city centre by Steve Graves and football agent Neil Sang to talk about the stuff that goes on in that void between football seasons. No music this week, but we should be back to normal next week. Download Issue...
LIVERPOOL FC: WISHING THE DAYS AWAY

LIVERPOOL FC: WISHING THE DAYS AWAY

I’M FIFTY. I may have mentioned this, I’ve had kind of an obsession about the fact for the last year. Those of you who have hit the figure will know what I’m talking about, those who haven’t will find out. Regardless. 50. More memories behind...
THE SEASON THAT WAS: SOME FORGOTTEN GEMS

THE SEASON THAT WAS: SOME FORGOTTEN GEMS

ARE you missing them yet? I know I am. Life isn’t quite the same without a Liverpool game to look forward to at the weekend. This imminent World Cup can’t come – and go – quickly enough as far as I’m concerned. Forget Roy Hodgson and the Three Lions, I...
SCUDAMORE, BANTER, WOMEN AND FOOTBALL

SCUDAMORE, BANTER, WOMEN AND FOOTBALL

ALISON McGOVERN, Labour MP for Wirral South, says the Richard Scudamore sexism row presents wider questions about women and football BANTER.  The modern term for the age-old phenomena of joking around on the verge of acceptability. Yep, this article is about banter. I...

PODCAST: END OF SEASON REVIEWS

Get issue 10 of TAW’s monthly digital mag free from iTunes for iOS devices or from app.theanfieldwrap.com for everything else. iTunes Podcast RSS feed   DIRECT LINK TO PODCAST: END OF SEASON REVIEW PART ONE END OF SEASON REVIEW PART ONE IN the first of four...
WHEN THE CUP DIDN’T MEAN F.A.

WHEN THE CUP DIDN’T MEAN F.A.

NOTHING said ‘cup final day’ more than a dog in full football kit. The FA Cup Final used to be the biggest day on the football calendar. It was absolutely massive and the country would grind to a halt to decorate front windows of houses, to hand over good money to buy...

GETTING OVER DIRK

By Kate Forrester IT’S been nearly two years since I was forced to say goodbye. Sometimes it seems like a lifetime ago.  At other times, barely five minutes. It’s only now I feel able to put my feelings down on paper, having recently come to terms with what happened...