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...

CITYTALK: STAYING OUT FOR THE SUMMER

NEIL Atkinson was joined in Liverpool’s Radio City Tower by Mike Nevin, John Gibbons and Paul Duhaney as they look back at the season and also have a chat about the 13th anniversary of the UEFA Cup final against Alaves as well as the 20 highlights of the season....
THE REAL REASON WE GO THE MATCH

THE REAL REASON WE GO THE MATCH

EXTORTIONATE ticket prices, stupid kick-off times, absentee owners fleecing the club you love… With all that to bear, it would be easy to walk away from the game – especially when things start to go wrong on the pitch. But supporters stick with it through the wind and...

Epic progress

SO here we stand, blinking in the cold light of day, the mind whirring as it attempts to compute exactly what happened over the course of the last nine months. How we came from relatively nowhere to somewhere completely different, somewhere so close to our ultimate...
GIG OF THE WEEK – THE GARDEN FESTIVAL GET-TOGETHER

GIG OF THE WEEK – THE GARDEN FESTIVAL GET-TOGETHER

WHAT are we meant to do with ourselves now? Enjoy the sun? Talk to our partners? Get bang into Rugby League?? Well if you are in Liverpool, one thing you can do is enjoy what is already looking like a fantastic summer of music and events in the city, starting this...
THE CURIOUS CASE OF STEVEN GERRARD

THE CURIOUS CASE OF STEVEN GERRARD

MANY Reds looked to the heavens before Liverpool took to the pitch on Sunday. Despite all the bravado, we needed a miracle to win the Premier League. But rather than a thumbs up from the big guy above, instead we saw a small plane buzzing around Anfield carrying a...