GIG OF THE WEEK – ALDER HEY HOSPITAL CHARITY GIG

ALDER HEY HOSPITAL CHARITY GIG – GRAND CENTRAL SATURDAY 12TH MAY £10 Doing anything this Saturday night? There is a fantastic show on at the fabulous newly(ish) refurbished Grand Central on Renshaw Street in Liverpool to raise money for the place Roy Hodgson...

Time To Put Humpty Together Again

AS the season draws to a close, with everyone looking for some closure on the draws, I’m going to make a case for a summer of simple integration at Liverpool Football Club. It’s my contention that, like Humpty Dumpty, Liverpool just needs put together...

Adam Yauch – a wee rambling tribute

Hip hop has planted many a curious seed in many a young, impressionable mind over the last – what is it? Three decades? Whether it’s some bloke from Staten Island New Jersey telling me about Chinese medieval legend, a New Yorker giving me dietary advice,...

THE ANFIELD WRAP NOMINATED FOR TWO AWARDS

After last years success in the NOPA’s where we won the Peoples Choice Award, The Anfield Wrap are proud to have been shortlisted for two EPLTalk awards in the Best EPL Club Blog and Best EPL Club Podcast. You can vote for us in the Best EPL Club Blog here Or...

FA CUP SPECIAL: THE LINE-UPS

Cup final week, its great isn’t it? What do you mean you’d forgotten? So to get you all in the mood, we’ve not only recorded a Cup Final Special to be aired on CityTalk on Friday, we thought we’d have a bit of a laugh and get a few of the lads...

LOST IN TRANSITION

By Luke McGovern INCREASINGLY, over the past few weeks, I have found myself in the position of having to defend an excruciating run of results, underperforming players and a club legend who is at the forefront of the whole debacle. It’s as though I am acting as...

Directors Of Football and why Comolli was a worry

ON this week’s “Soccer Report Extra” podcast, available HERE, we gained a glimpse of Damien Comolli’s perception of his methodology and approach to the Director Of Football role – a role he had, of course, filled at Spurs and Liverpool in...

THE LEAVERS OF LIVERPOOL

LAST week the media fell back in love with Chelsea, lauding the Stamford Bridge side for their landmark dethroning of Barcelona. It’s hard to see what all the fuss was about, really – after all, it was only a repeat of their efforts in 2009, when a 1-0 win at the...

A MESSAGE FROM A MANC

By Patrick John THIS is likely to get me battered in Bowdon, clattered in Collyhurst and walloped in Whalley Range. But here goes anyway – I’m a Manchester United fan and (stick with it) I really haven’t got a problem with Liverpool. There, I’ve said it. Huge club,...