SOUTHAMPTON TICKET GIVEAWAY

      WE’VE teamed up with our mates at Red Touch Media again to offer a pair of ‘Executive Club Tickets’ for this weekend’s game against Southampton to one lucky Anfield Wrap listener. Boss eh? The tickets include match tickets,...

THE ANFIELD WRAP: IN OUR LIVERPOOL HOME

 RED TOUCH MEDIA AND THE ANFIELD WRAP: IN OUR LIVERPOOL HOME THE ANFIELD WRAP is to share a new Liverpool waterfront home with Red Touch Media as part of an exciting link-up with the hi-tech media company. TAW – which now incorporates a podcast, radio show, website...

In Defence Of Heroes

WE live in an era of almost crippling political correctness, in which the need to be viewed as non-discriminatory is often paralysing; and yet, when it comes to football and friendship, favouritism is a process of differentiation in which we all engage openly and...

IPCC calling for Hillsborough witnesses

LAST October, following on from the publication of the Hillsborough Independent Panel’s report, the Independent Police Complaints Commission launched an investigation into allegations of police misconduct or criminal behaviour during the aftermath of the Hillsborough...

A NEW STADIUM – REALLY AN IMPOSSIBLE DREAM?

*DISCLAIMER – I GOT A D IN GCSE MATHS AND TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY WHATSOEVER FOR THE ACCURACY OF THE CALCULATIONS. SOZ. **Serious for a second, any obvious mistakes, please let me know and i’ll happily correct them, but every effort has been taken to ensure...

The Big Corona – A Football Detective Story Ch.1

This fiction is initially inspired by this tweet from Andy Burnham. And my own immediate response to it. ATKINSON – FOOTBALL FLATFOOT (2)  [The first Chapter One of Atkinson – Football Flatfoot is available here]  Chapter 1 – The Proposition Sticky Liverpool...

TANKERS NEED GOOD DRIVERS

By Phil Blundell “ENGLISH football is a tanker that needs turning. The real challenge for us looking forward is that we’ve gone from 70% English players in the Premier League to 30% and it’s still falling. If that continues, we won’t have a...

Nige-Mageddon

IN case you missed it, Greg Dyke, the new FA Chairman, said this in a speech last week. “I’ve been planning this speech almost from the day I was offered the job as FA Chairman and I have read with interest recently people arguing that English football needs a...