by Gareth Roberts | Sep 2, 2012 | Footie
BRENDAN RODGERS couldn’t have made it any clearer. He wanted, expected, and probably demanded that there be additions to Liverpool’s squad on transfer deadline day. Namely, he wanted goalscorers: “I’ve been given as much confidence as I can possibly get that we will...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 1, 2012 | Footie
By Sam Jones LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB is in the midst of a crisis. Not the crisis you think I mean, not the deadline day debacle that is consuming the energy of most. This is a different sort of crisis, an enduring, ongoing crisis. Deadline day is part of it, yes, but...
by Roy Henderson | Aug 29, 2012 | Footie
One of the happy by-products of this summer’s changes at Liverpool Football Club is that I find myself completely at ease as we near the end of the summer transfer window. Commolli is gone, half-assed statistical notions of what constitutes ‘good’...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 25, 2012 | Footie
By Sam Jones WHEN FSG, or NESV as they were at the time, took over Liverpool Football Club it was widely reported that having the funds to build a new stadium was a prerequisite for a new owner. A non negotiable, said Martin Broughton. 2 years later we seem no closer....
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 25, 2012 | Footie
[EDITORS NOTE: THIS WAS WRITTEN AND FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES MEANT TO BE PUBLISHED BEFORE THE MIDWEEK EUROPA LEAGUE TIE, BUT WE ALL GOT A BIT LAWRO’D] By Andy Gargett IN early July I wrote this for The Anfield Wrap outlining why I thought Brendan...
by Gareth Roberts | Aug 25, 2012 | Footie
IT’S close to two years since Fenway Sports Group (then New England Sports Ventures) took control of our club but for some they still can’t do a thing right. Keeping a close eye on how they operate is one thing, being uniformly negative about everything they do...
by John Gibbons | Aug 24, 2012 | Footie
WHEN socialists say everything should be nationalised, I can only presume they haven’t been to The Mathew Street Festival. If they had they would have an asterisk next to this claim with an accompanying footnote reading ‘apart from music festivals, for the love of god...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 22, 2012 | Footie
By Sam Jones I’M pretty good at my job. Not the best in the world or anything, but I’m pretty good. A bit lazy at times, but you can work smart, can’t you? Sometimes that little bit of talent can see you through on the days when you can’t be fucked. The days when you...
by John Gibbons | Aug 22, 2012 | Footie
LAWRO is, to all extents and purposes, a bit of a divvy There is nothing really wrong with this – some of my best friends are divvies, and we can’t all be as distinguished as your average TAW contributor. Lawro is the fella at the party who is not as funny as he...
by Rory Smith | Aug 22, 2012 | Footie
MARK Lawrenson is SAD. Not elaborate train set in the cellar, meals for one, live with your mother until she dies and then refuse to move her body from the chair she loved so much, Alan Partridge sad. He’s not saaaaad. He’s SAD. Not grieving for a lost relative,...
