Cover Exclusive Noel Gallagher interview Extracts from a forthcoming book by some of the TAW crew Neil Scott assesses the transformation of Brendan Rodgers Bookie Phil Blundell is back with his tips for the World Cup A teenager’s perspective on the season just...
I’VE READ with interest the Anfield Wrap correspondents’ opening commentaries on their adopted World Cup nations; ranging from Kate Forrester’s hopes that Diego Costa will bring unsavoury mayhem to Spain’s matches, to Dan Fitzsimmons’ beautiful relationship with the...
THERE is a NASA research centre in the middle of Antarctica called Concordia. It is in the coldest, darkest and most extreme environment on the planet. The outside temperature regularly falls below -80C, or -99.9C with wind chill – the extreme limit of its scale....
THE football hipster in me had fallen out of love with the World Cup a little ever since it was expanded to a 32-team tournament for France 1998. While yes, the event was given a more symmetrical system, I felt it lost some shine. The idea of four out of the six...
By Martin Fitzgerald I’D LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO SOMEONE. His name is Ebi and he’s from Iran. Ebi was born in Tehran in 1980, a year after the National Revolution and just two weeks before Iran got caught up in a war with Iraq that would last the next...
By Craig Rimmer 1986. THE AZTECA. The moustache. The sombrero. Lineker. Argentina. Diego Maradona. “The Hand of God”. “The Goal of the Century”. “The Mexican Wave”. “La Ola” (The Wave), a common sight at sports stadiums across North and South America. It gained iconic...
By Simon Hughes I WAS IN ITALY during the 1990 World Cup. I was six years old and on holiday with my parents in Sardinia, cossetted up near Alghero: far away from the fun and games. I knew I liked football a lot by then. Liverpool had won the First Division...
CAMEROON. Bolivia. Scotland. Senegal. Costa Rica. Mexico. What joins these six countries together may not be initially obvious to the untrained eye, but to the World Cup aficionados out there, and there are many, they can be defined as “the other nation”. They are the...
NEIL ATKINSON, Paul Cope and Jim Boardman are joined on the phone by Andi Thomas, Roy Henderson and Kristan Heneage as they chat about the return of Rickie Lambert and the impending bohemouth that is the World Cup. Get issue 9 of TAW’s monthly digital mag free...
By Neil Scott AH YES. ECUADOR. Jewel of the Andes. Home of the banana. A land steeped in history and natural splendour. With its mountains and its music and its extensive collection of luxury tortoises. And its bananas. Did I already mention its bananas? Push on, I...
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…
