by Steve Graves | Feb 17, 2012 | Footie
SOME football websites exist purely to create controversy. Shock value is their currency, getting a rise out of a group of fans considered a good day’s work in the minds of their creators and contributors. The Anfield Wrap is emphatically not among them. I’d be...
by Rob Gutmann | Feb 16, 2012 | Footie
IT seems clarification is in order. I suppose I must have subconsciously known it when penning a piece on Suarez and Evra that even going near the subject of Heysel was going to provoke reaction. I decided to go with it, to be brutually honest, not for...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 16, 2012 | Footie
by Kate Forrester LAZY. Incompetent. Biased. Scum. Parasite. As a working journalist, I have been called all of the above at least once (but not all at the same time, usually). And I haven’t really done anything more controversial than sit in magistrates’ court and...
by Karl Coppack | Feb 15, 2012 | Footie
By Karl Coppack ‘Oh, you know, strikes and gutters, ups and downs…’ – The Dude RECENTLY I was talking to a few mates about the rise and demise of LFC over the past few years. We discussed how it’s possible for us to go from dicking both Man United and Madrid in...
by Steve Graves | Feb 15, 2012 | Footie
HITACHI, Crown Paints, Candy, Carlsberg, Standard Chartered. Japanese electricals, paint, washing machines, beer, financial services. Which company’s product are you most likely to buy? Which is most likely to be found in a house in L4? Let’s try another....
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 14, 2012 | Footie
The following article was reproduced with permission from The Times By John Barnes IT’S not about football, it’s about destroying modern myths of colour, race and superiority In 1987 a black friend of mine went into a shop to buy a coat. He asked the assistant...
by Gareth Roberts | Feb 12, 2012 | Footie
THE media have made a big deal out of it. Alex Ferguson has blown it out of all proportion. Rival fans have pointed the finger. Rent-a-quotes have fallen over themselves to comment. And absolutely none of it – not one little bit of it – is surprising. It’s what...
by Andy Heaton | Feb 12, 2012 | Footie
MAN found guilty of a charge he feels he is innocent of by an organisation with a 99.5% conviction rate. Man is aggrieved at being found guilty and the subsequent ban imposed. Man not too keen on shaking hands with his accuser who he feels is responsible for his...
by Roy Henderson | Feb 11, 2012 | Footie
*Sigh* It’s 8.30pm on Saturday the 11th of February and hey – guess what?! It’s Groundhog Day, that’s what. Why even bother going over the finer points of it? I have the privilege of an account on this increasingly esteemed site, and I have a...
by Ian Maloney | Feb 10, 2012 | Footie
So as 2,000 Scousers plan to run the gauntlet at Old Trafford tomorrow, it seems our own club has wisely drawn a line in the sand having been placed firmly in the media crosshairs for what seems like an eternity. Liverpool FC closed ranks this morning, omitting some...
