The Buzz

PAUL COPE said to me: “Listened to your Melbourne podcast. And I just thought, yeah. We should enjoy it. It should be great. It used to be. We get to go and do this and all we do is act like it ruins our day whereas people’d kill to do this every week. Well let’s...

Season Predictions #5

A bumper fifth edition (which I might regret if someone else sneaks some in) with offerings from Steve Davies, Gareth Roberts, Amy Lawrence, Rob Gutmann, Kristian Walsh and a very late entry from Catherine Stewart. Apologies for the mad formatting on all these.  ...

Season Predictions #4

AND now we move to our fourth offering after yesterday’s three. Mikes Nevin and Girling are separated by Stephen Goldsmith on Sunderland and Iain McIntosh on Southend.   Mike Nevin   What do Liverpool still need to do before the window closes? Sign...

Season Prediction #3

WE are already eight in. Now for another four. Trevor Downey, me, Juliet Jacques on Norwich and John Gibbons.   Trevor Downey   What do Liverpool still need to do before the window closes? Buy a first-team-ready left back and a defensive midfielder. Squad...

Season Prediction #2

YOU’VE already had Messrs Coppack, Sutton, Fitzsimmons and Graves. Now we have Martin Fitzgerald, Andi Thomas, Jim Boardman and Phil Blundell’s predictions about what’s to come for Liverpool and other matters arising…   Martin Fitzgerald...

Season Predictions #1

SO I’ve asked a few what they reckon will go on this season along with a few other questions to help take temperatures. We’ll put these on over the next couple of days. Here are the first four – Dave Sutton, Karl Coppack, Daniel Fitzsimmons and Steve...

TAW/RED TOUCH MEDIA STOKE TICKET GIVEAWAY

        After the madness of Australia and Ireland, The Anfield Wrap has again teamed up with Red Touch Media to offer a pair of “Executive Club Tickets” for every single home game this season starting with this weeks opening fixture against...

PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS

THREE years ago this month, Martin Broughton, Chelsea season ticket holder and then chairman of Liverpool Football Club, was reportedly assessing six bidders’ credentials to take over from Tom Hicks and George Gillett, the carpetbaggers who in just three years as...

GAME FOR A LAUGH

It’s October 2006 and I’m stood outside of an Irish bar in Bordeaux. This is the wine capital of the world and I’m here with about twenty of my mates outside of a ramshackle Irish bar because they sell John Smiths. I have been outvoted. I shake my...