by Karl Coppack | Jan 11, 2012 | Footie
By Karl Coppack Well, there it is. From thieves and dole scroungers to murderers to murderers of our own to racists. How long before charges of paedophilia for the full set? Oh, we hit women now too. The Suarez debate has stopped being just that – a debate. A...
by Roy Henderson | Jan 10, 2012 | Footie
CHARLIE ADAM. It’s been a funny old start, hasn’t it? When he signed, and in the weeks shortly after that point, we saw references ranging from “the Scottish Redondo” to “Xarlie Adamso” over the length and breadth of the Red web....
by John Gibbons | Jan 10, 2012 | Footie
FRIDAY 23RD DECEMBER 2011 LIVERPOOL THERE IS, of course, a long history of association between music and football in Liverpool; from men on the Kop in the 60s dressed for nights out watching the Merseybeat bands, to the ‘The End’ magazine in the 80s, to Liverpool...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jan 10, 2012 | Footie
by Sam Jones 99.5%. A fairly impressive figure, but what is it? Liverpool’s chance conversion rate in the 2011/12 season? The percentage of Paul Scholes’ tackles that were so late that you would have received compensation if he was an airline? The weekly...
by Steve Graves | Jan 9, 2012 | Footie
Just before Christmas there was some sad news for the Liverpool music scene when Mick Head’s pre-Christmas gig at the Brink on Parr Street came to an early end, with the Shack frontman taken to hospital. Thankfully it sounds like Mick is on the mend, but the...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jan 4, 2012 | Footie
After a fantastic response to the launch of www.rafabenitez.com, Rafa Benitez is expanding his online presence and now has launched an official twitter account of his website. The site has received widespread acclaim from both fans and professionals and has quickly...
by Tony Evans | Jan 4, 2012 | Footie
“If cups were awarded for cock-ups then you would not be able to move in City’s boardroom” — Francis Lee It was appropriate that Liverpool played Manchester City last night, hours after they attempted to draw a line under the Luis Suárez-Patrice Evra incident. The...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jan 3, 2012 | Footie
by Sam Jones The FA, and their legal representatives will doubtless be relieved that in the aftermath of the release of their written reasons for the outcome they reached following the charges brought against Luis Suarez, that so much time, effort and emotion has been...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jan 3, 2012 | Footie
By Paul Edwards I’ve read hundreds of tweets and blogs about the Suarez verdict and just as many about the 115 pages of reasons published by the Football Association on New Years eve. Really great timing that by the FA it seemed, though it transpires Suarez and...
by Steve Graves | Jan 1, 2012 | Footie
IT became something of a ritual in our house. At least once evening a week the phone would ring. My mum, ever-patient despite the demands of a full-time job and a socially-awkward six-year-old to keep in fish fingers and Gola shellsuits, would answer as usual. “No,...
