A Defence of the Realm – Part One HARRY REDKNAPP’s Spurs have won just one in their last nine and are fifth in the Premier League. Until about six weeks ago ‘the greatest living Englishman’s’ season looked unimpeachable. Third in the table and...
Liverpool Heroes is a unique portrait of what life is really like playing for one of the world’s biggest football clubs. Writer and female journalist Ragnhild Lund Ansnes has spent two years getting to know many of the greatest legends who played for the Reds...
This is a low. A league campaign falling apart around our ears, Champions League qualification a long-forgotten dream, the club’s director of football sacked days before a cup semi-final. And yet. And yet… And yet there’s an odd kind of optimism...
“And he huffed and he puffed and he huffed and he puffed, and eventually he blew the house in.” Narrator – The Three Little Pigs WE all trudged home or switched off our streams in the wake of the weekend game with West Brom, and immediately on...
By Andy Thornley Sound of Guns – Cargo, London (Thursday 19 April) Have you heard The Sound of Guns? No, I’m not a bizzy conducting door to door enquires – I’m talking about the scouse band that’s been causing a splash on the music scene of late. The Anfield Wrap sent...
SINCE featuring music on The Anfield Wrap’s City Talk podcast, the band that we have had the greatest positive response to has been The Tea Street Band. So I met up with singer Timo Tierney and keyboard player James Albertina for a brew to talk music and their...
Here we are. A labour of love. Well, not love. Most definitely not love. But a labour. This is my friend Ben Johnson’s (@benjanijohnson on Twitter) Hodge File. It isn’t definitive. He only started maintaining it when he realised exactly what we were dealing with when...
By Karl Coppack A thread on a Liverpool forum recently asked if LFC are becoming hated. The opening post read… “Ahead of today’s game Moyes had been saying that neutrals want Everton to win. Now I know he’s playing games but it got me thinking, I...
On a couple of podcasts recently I’ve been discussing the short film I’ve written and produced called “Pro”. Pro is the story of a fictional footballer, Thomas Ryder, who gets himself into a spot of bother on Twitter and who is being quietly stalked by a...
THE football bubble is simple. In it, anything goes. People think and act differently. They take leave of their senses. Common sense goes out of the window. Dignity is forgotten; respect means nothing. Abuse is fine in the bubble. Ditto racism, violence and bigotry....
