by James Dutton | Feb 27, 2013 | Footie
You’ve probably seen that video on the BBC website where Xabi Alonso, in his dreamy Basque-English accent, wistfully reflects on Liverpool, a club he still feels ‘attached to’ and one which he still claims to support: “I still feel really attached to Liverpool and I...
by Tony Barrett | Feb 25, 2013 | Footie
AS a boy growing up in Kirkby, John Coleman played football on one of the best and most natural academies that the English game has known. The pitches at Brookfield School produced not one but two European Cup-winning captains in Phil Thompson and Dennis Mortimer,...
by Karl Coppack | Feb 21, 2013 | Footie
By Karl Coppack IT’S the day of the home leg against Zenit, six months into the season and I’m still not sure. I’ve sat through 5-0 wins, I’ve seen us be an aberration of a back pass and a walkabout goalkeeper away from beating the League...
by Roy Henderson | Feb 21, 2013 | Footie
IT was truly a delight to open this morning”s papers to the news that “Bayern Munich are a bit good, aren”t they?”, with balanced and reasonable commentary of both the game, and of what it means for Arsenal”s standing in the European...
by John Gibbons | Feb 19, 2013 | Footie
AS YOU will have heard on the Anfield Wrap podcast, super suave soul sensation Esco Williams plays his biggest show to date at the O2 Academy in Liverpool this Thursday night. So if you are too nervous to watch the match, think we are going to get beat and can’t...
by Neil Atkinson | Feb 14, 2013 | Footie
WE’RE nearly ready. The running order was completed last night. Everyone should know where they need to be when. What we are talking about in what order. Everyone should know all this but it occurred to me it might help if you know. I need you on your A game. I...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 12, 2013 | Footie
As you may have heard mentioned on the Podcast and on Twitter, as part of TAWONTOUR in Bray, we’re holding an auction on the night to raise funds for the Hillsborough Justice Campaign. Here are the items we have so far to auction off that have been very kindly...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 11, 2013 | Footie, Podcast
WE’RE pleased to announce that as part of the very first TAW ON TOUR gig this Saturday night at The Royal Hotel in Bray, Sky Sports’ Spanish football expert and adopted Scouser Guillem Balague will be signing copies of his new book ‘Pep Guardiola:...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 7, 2013 | Footie
By NEIL SCOTT PERHAPS more than any other sport, football is about individual moments. Those snapshots of genius, of madness, of calamity or despair which, taken in isolation, act as a kind of symbolic shorthand for a particular match, a season, sometimes even a...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 7, 2013 | Footie
THE second phase of a special auction to bid for the unique ’96’ jackets worn by Liverpool and Manchester United players is now live for two weeks only – with all proceeds raised going to the Hillsborough Family Support Group (HFSG). The first phase of the...
