The Return of the Thin Duke

By Karl Coppack LAST week saw David Bowie’s 66th birthday and his first single in a decade. Twitter had musicians and writers hailing his return and it even merited a mention on the Nine O’clock News. Despite years of near silence, David Bowie is still a big...

NO SLEEP TILL BROOKLYN – TAW COMES TO NYC

NO SLEEP TILL BROOKLYN! Second installment of New York Sound City confirmed for March The Enemy, Reverend and the Makers, Tea Street Band and more head across the Atlantic The Anfield Wrap confirmed for live podcast Sound City continues its global expansion in in...

THE HALFWAY HOUSE

By Karl Coppack THE Christmas programme marks a vital period in any season. Those three or four games can transform a mid table team to one pushing for the European places or shove another towards the relegation places. It takes just days for a pretty good start to...

PODCAST: ONE OFF THE WRIST

Neil and the lads were joined by Matt Lim as they have a look back at yet another Suarez non-story and debate whether the Uruguyan magician should be burned as a Witch before looking forward to the impending trip to Old Trafford.   Direct link to PODCAST: ONE OFF...

'ROBBED' by Rob Jones – exclusive extract

IN his fascinating new autobiography, Rob Jones relives the highs and lows of his time at Liverpool FC, including what happened to him after being told to hang up his boots at the age of just 27. In this exclusive extract for the Anfield Wrap, Jones explains the role...

JONJO SHELVEY – A FEW THOUGHTS

WHEN Daniel Sturridge passed his debut Liverpool goal in to Mansfield’s net, he did his best to look nonchalant. Perhaps aware that putting one past a non-league side wasn’t the kind of thing Real Proper Strikers Who Play Through the Middle like what he is...

Old enough to know better

DANIEL STURRIDGE is likely to run out of the Anfield tunnel wearing a red shirt when Liverpool play Sunderland on Wednesday – and he could soon be joined in the squad by Thomas Ince. The pursuit of both players – Sturridge is 23, Ince is 20 –...

High Court helps to right grievous Hillsborough wrong

AFTER 23 years of banging their heads against a succession of brick walls put in front of them by an establishment that didn’t seem to care, the Hillsborough families and their supporters have spent the past three months pinching themselves. From David Cameron...