AS you approach Old Trafford over a bridge that spans the Manchester Ship Canal, the Lego-like frame of the ground begins to loom large; a white support structure visible as the traffic edges closer to a stadium that was once ruined by Luftwaffe bombs. The ground was...
GEORGE Polya – Hungarian mathematical boffin of historical note – once postulated five patterns of plausibility, each of which, he claimed, told us something about the structure of belief in us humans. The starting point for these patterns was the fact...
SOMETHING’S happening here. For all of us who are used to false dawns, missing pieces of the jigsaw and good runs ending with terrible results and performances this is all becoming a bit worrying. We can’t win at Southampton. 0-3. Well alright, the wheels will...
by ALEX HESS ROME may not have been built in a day, but this Liverpool side feels like it’s sprung up overnight. It there’s one thing to be noted about the thing that we can now legitimately call a Liverpool Title Challenge then it’s how completely...
A REGULATION 3-0 away win against average and limited opposition? We can laugh, and of course we do, but if truth be told, it was a regulation 3-0 away win against an average and limited opposing manager. No team that can boast forward players of the calibre of Robin...
THAT’LL teach those bastards for building the ship canal. Samuel Greg and Daniel Adamson, your boys took one hell of a beating. I’m writing this in Legends Bar in New York after doing 90 minutes commentary. Thanks to them and NY Kopites for the maddest...
“A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home.” – Matthew 13:57 TAKE captain and club figurehead Steven Gerrard for instance. In what other city, in what other country, would a player so beautifully gifted and driven to...
RAY HOUGHTON was hailed as the final piece in the jigsaw of Kenny Dalglish’s side when he signed for Liverpool from Oxford United in October 1987. Most would say the class of 2014 is missing more than one piece, and an improbable title challenge has puzzled many. We...
“HP baked beans; they’re the beans for me.” BANG! More than just a slogan to sell haricot beans in a tasty tomato sauce. It’s an early 1980s visit to Old Trafford – that most friendly and hospitable of away grounds for the discerning travelling Red to tip up at...
NEIL Atkinson, Steve Graves and Paul Cope chat about Liverpool’s chances at Old Trafford this weekend with United We Stand’s Steve Armstrong. Music this week from Forthaven and Silent Cities Download Issue 8 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at app.theanfieldwrap.com for...
