by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 17, 2012 | Footie
By Andy Thornley I DID something incredibly stupid on Sunday. I ran a marathon. Making the ultimate cardinal sin of failing to check the fixture guide before agreeing to something, I booked myself and the missus in to 26.2 miles of pain, taking place over in Paris. I...
by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 17, 2012 | Footie
By Victoria Collins THIS YEAR’S Resurrection festival showcased some of Merseyside’s most talented up-and-coming acts. The variety of groups performing this year offered an eclectic sound which seemed to really reflect the different sounds knocking about Liverpool at...
by Gareth Roberts | Apr 15, 2012 | Footie
TWENTY THREE years. Or 8,401 days. Or 201, 624 hours. Whatever way you look at it, it’s a heck of a long time to go without the truth about why a loved one needlessly died. A son, a daughter, a brother, a sister, a dad, a grandad. Cruelly snatched away by a...
by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 15, 2012 | Footie
By Simon Ellis-Jones Producer, World Football Focus, BBC Sport HILLSBOROUGH. The word is tough to write, even harder to say out loud. Twenty-three years have passed since that day. A huge number of football fans going to games this week will not even have been born...
by Tony Evans | Apr 14, 2012 | Footie
Alan Davies got it wrong on Twitter but in the real world there are far more serious issues for fans TOMORROW John Glover will try to go to Anfield for the annual memorial service on the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster. If he can get there, it will be his...
by Kristian Walsh | Apr 13, 2012 | Footie
IF you hold your ear close enough, you can hear it. You can hear it on buses, in office blocks and pubs. It’s heard in north Liverpool, south Liverpool and across the ripples of the River Mersey. There’s a hushed whisper around the city of Liverpool; a...
by Paul Rogers | Apr 13, 2012 | Footie
ROBBIE FOWLER, Bill Shankly, Rhys Jones, Gary Ablett and the Hillsborough 96 all get namechecked in a new hip-hop song released by LFC and local rapper Jamie Broad ahead of Saturday’s semi-final. Twenty eight years ago, Liverpool and Everton met in the League Cup...
by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 13, 2012 | Footie
by Gary Shaw The apparent disintegration of Liverpool’s 2011/12 season and the club’s seemingly rapid and dramatic shift from ‘top four contender’ to ‘just a cup team’ has been vociferously and bathetically debated in pubs, TV studios and internet forums for the past...
by John Gibbons | Apr 12, 2012 | Footie
LIVERPOOL band The Sound of Guns released their second album ‘Angels and Enemies’ in March and are currently embarking on a European tour. Sparing no expense, The Anfield Wrap flew John Gibbons out to Switzerland to have a drink with drummer Si Finley and see how it...
by Jay McKenna | Apr 12, 2012 | Footie
I WILL make it clear – before anyone points it out – that I wasn’t at Hillsborough that day. I was two years old. I didn’t lose any family members, or people who I knew. But I do know those who lost loved ones, who experienced that day, and who still...
