TOP OF THE LEAGUE WITH ONE TO GO

NO-ONE on this site needs any help working out the permutations – we all know what the chances are and what circumstances need to prevail for Liverpool to take their chance to be League winners for the 19th time, and the first in over two decades. No-one on this site...

PODCAST: UNBOWED

NEIL ATKINSON, Craig Rimmer, John Gibbons and Paul Cope reflect on the day Brendan Rodgers’ Tricky Reds seemingly punched themselves out. Get issue 10 of TAW’s monthly digital mag free from iTunes for iOS devices or from app.theanfieldwrap.com for...

WITH A BANG

SELHURST PARK. BLOODY HELL. TWICE before Selhurst Park had played a pivotal role in the outcome of a title race we’d been involved in, and on neither occasion had Crystal Palace been our opponents. 1990 a 4-0 win against Charlton Athletic had been a big step towards...

Only Liverpool could blow it like that

By Dave Martinez IF you want to pick the bones out of it, by all means feel free to do so. Me? I haven’t got the heart to watch that game ever again, let alone to try and make sense of it. Things went tits up. Anything said on top of that is irrelevant nitpicking to...

From Despair To Where?

THERE is a tale. Possibly an apocryphal tale but a tale nevertheless. Colonel Tom Parker, fairground huckster, shyster, illegal immigrant, lousy gambler and – quite crucially – manager to Elvis Presley walks into Graceland on the hit of Elvis’ death...

Crystal Palace 3 (THREE) Liverpool 3 (THREE)

WORSE than a defeat. Come here Luis. Talk to me. Worse than a defeat. But. Blaming the centre-halves is basic. Beyond basic. A deflection. A break. And then Skrtel pushes out because no one is holding mid. Why is no one holding mid? Martin Skrtel was brilliant...
LIVERPOOL: WE. WANT. GOALS.

LIVERPOOL: WE. WANT. GOALS.

By Martin Fitzgerald I’M SO BORED OF OTHER FOOTBALL TEAMS. You wouldn’t believe how bored I am, watching them, trying to work out what they’re up to. What their game is. How what they will do will impact on us. I’m so bored of other...
LIVERPOOL: IT AIN’T OVER UNTIL IT’S OVER

LIVERPOOL: IT AIN’T OVER UNTIL IT’S OVER

I HAVE a tendency to speak – and indeed write – before I think. I find this to be one of my more endearing traits, but I can understand there may be others who disagree. Somewhere in the city there is a man named Mongoose – he has a real name but...
LIVERPOOL: AWAY WE GO AGAIN

LIVERPOOL: AWAY WE GO AGAIN

THAT was a week when everything deviated away from the idea that this wild ride of a football season was all about us. How no-one else mattered, how no-one else was relevant. Jose Mourinho made himself very relevant. He used all the dirtiest tricks at his disposal....
PODCAST: LIVE FROM LIVERPOOL SOUND CITY

PODCAST: LIVE FROM LIVERPOOL SOUND CITY

NEIL Atkinson was joined by Mike Girling, Mike Nevin, John Gibbons, Simon Hughes and Sean Rogers for a live Anfield Wrap show in front of a Liverpool Sound City audience. The panel discussed the role Everton could play in the destination of the Premier League title...