by Kristian Walsh | Dec 18, 2012 | Footie
STOP the press, here’s an exclusive for you: all football journalists have a favourite football team. Some even support one. There is a ridiculous notion given credence in this age of social media and global villages that those who write about football should do so...
by The Anfield Wrap | Dec 13, 2012 | Footie
BY BEN McCAUSLAND ME and Liverpool Football Club are going through a bad patch. Every long-term relationship has its ups and downs – I understand that – but I have felt this way for a while now and I don’t see clearer skies on the horizon. The dynamics of our...
by The Anfield Wrap | Dec 13, 2012 | Footie
By Andy Gargett IT has been a turnaround that would have made Lazarus proud. Former Kop boo boy Lucas Leiva is now widely heralded as the saviour for Liverpool’s current midfield malaise. Lucas’ second long-term injury within the year has harmed...
by The Anfield Wrap | Dec 3, 2012 | Footie
LIVERPOOL fans in and around Dublin are invited to join Sky Sports’ Spanish football expert Guillem Balague and Tony Evans, Football Editor of The Times, for a very special version of the award-winning Anfield Wrap radio show. Guillem and Tony will join regulars...
by Gareth Roberts | Nov 26, 2012 | Footie
SORRY Chelsea fans, but you really haven’t thought this one through. Singing “Fuck off, Benitez?” Booing your own manager on day one? Way to go. When the stadium announcer read out the attendance at Stamford Bridge and followed it by thanking fans...
by Roy Henderson | Nov 24, 2012 | Footie
SO Xavi Valero has gone and gone to London, taking his merry band of hired coaching guns with him in his wake, with the little matter of one Rafael Benitez Maudes nestling his prodigious footballing cojones in the blue plastic Recaro Chaise Longue of the Chelsea...
by The Anfield Wrap | Nov 23, 2012 | Footie, Podcast
Joe Cole and Jonjo Shelvey spoke to the media in the mixed zone after Liverpool”s 2-2 Europa League draw at Anfield against Switzerland”s BSC Young Boys, listen to it using one of the methods below: Podcast RSS feed iTunes
by Rob Gutmann | Nov 22, 2012 | Footie
(or the further adventures of Martin Samuel, old right wingers, and a Uruguayan centre forward) Good art however “immoral” is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise....
by John Gibbons | Nov 22, 2012 | Footie
CHRIS MOYLES has never heard of the Raveonettes. Or should I say had never heard of them. A number of years ago he was interviewing a nondescript indie band, lets say The Kaizer Chiefs, who had just been in New York. He asked them if they had seen anyone famous, as...
by Karl Coppack | Nov 22, 2012 | Footie
By Karl Coppack SOMETIMES great players have graceless exits. Robbie Fowler ended his first tenure by being substituted at half time thanks to Didi Hamann being sent off at Sunderland, Fernando Torres skulked off with two goals at Molineux but without a smile and...
