by John Gibbons | Mar 29, 2012 | Footie
EP LAUNCH: SATURDAY 31ST MARCH – THE SHIPPING FORECAST IT TAKES a lot to get me inside the walls of The Shipping Forecast, but this show is well worth relaxing an already loose moral code for. It is being used as a double EP launch (which is a gig with a bigger than...
by Steve Graves | Mar 29, 2012 | Footie
The life of the top-level professional footballer today is almost uniquely privileged, yet also strikingly banal. Clubs, sponsors, agents and often players themselves conspire to create a perma-bubble force field around the stars of the game to keep them as detached...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 26, 2012 | Footie
By Paul Wilkes If you’re crap you’re crap, if you’re great you’re great. How about the age-old problem though that has faced us as supporters of Liverpool Football Club, we’re both. Consistency for a number of years has been the holy...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 22, 2012 | Footie
DEAR Football, It’s been about 17 years since things got serious with you. I discovered that I liked you the most when you were hanging out with your mates at Liverpool FC and I decided that’s where I would come to visit you most. We’ve had our ups and downs, but I’ve...
by Karl Coppack | Mar 19, 2012 | Footie
By Karl Coppack WHEN Guy Mowbray mentioned the Ray Kennedy goal in the 1981 League Cup semi at Man City recently he became a bit muddled, his mind caught between expressing a point and wrapping up the night’s events and inadvertently referred to him as...
by Gareth Roberts | Mar 18, 2012 | Footie
ROB JONES is rightly hailed as one of Graeme Souness’s success stories. Plucked from the obscurity of Fourth Division Crewe, 48 hours after signing for Liverpool in October 1991 the defender from Ellesmere Port was marking Ryan Giggs out of a televised game at...
by Steve Graves | Mar 15, 2012 | Footie
Wednesday’s Champions League meeting between Chelsea and Napoli encapsulated everything that’s great about the competition. A clash of styles and cultures, a seesaw dynamic crafted by the two-legged system and some technically superb goals. Floodlit theatre of the...
by Roy Henderson | Mar 15, 2012 | Footie
(Before you start, know this – the article is LONG, and probably quite dull if you’re not interested in the business side of the club, or worried about its long-term strategy.) — On 27 January 2011, John Henry and Tom Werner penned a lengthy reply to...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 15, 2012 | Footie
TAW has learned that the BBC have seen confidential documents that reveal Margaret Thatcher was informed that a senior Merseyside police officer blamed “drunken Liverpool fans” for causing the disaster. The briefings, written in the immediate aftermath of...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 13, 2012 | Footie
by Ben McCausland Best thing Wembley the other week? Without question, the best sight at Wembley last week was the fantastically home-made “JAY SPEARING FTM” flag. Moving away from the vast, shiny, vinyl flags with 3 long paragraphs, part written in Latin, this...
