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...
by DAVE MARTINEZ 13th January 2013 ‘Der der der der der der der RACIST BASTARD!’ I AM sat in the South Stand at Old Trafford awaiting kick-off as Luis Suarez predictably receives an earful from the Stretford End while he warms up. I have been afforded the dubious...
LISTENING to The Anfield Wrap a couple of weeks ago I was surprised by the willingness in some quarters to write off Fabio Borini’s coming of age season at Sunderland. A coming of age season for a forward player who has scored six goals for a side who have practically...
By Sam Drury THE day the fixtures for the new season are announced in June is an important one in the football calendar. After weeks without club football, for many fans it is the day the countdown to the new season begins in earnest. It is a new start. Everything...
Dan Hewitt On His Book ‘Left To Rot’ | TAW Special
Neil Atkinson is joined by ITV investigations Editor Dan Hewitt to talk about his book ‘Left To Rot – How Governments Have Betrayed Us and How We Fix It’, a book that looks at the UK housing crisis and what led to it.
