by Steve Graves | Oct 6, 2011 | Footie
IT’S EASY to mock Tony Hibbert. It’s also very, very tempting. But let’s face it – partisan dislike apart, there’s something weirdly admirable about Hibbo. In Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby described the tragedy of the career of Gus Caesar. Gus, Hornby reasoned, had...
by Roy Henderson | Oct 2, 2011 | Footie
I WAS at the Emirates last Wednesday night. I was sat eating my lunch, and next thing you know one of my workmates has offered me their season ticket for nowt. “Why not?” I asked myself. It’ll be like making a wildlife documentary. So I donned my...
by Ian Maloney | Sep 30, 2011 | Footie
The second in our series of LFC Greatests explores some of the finest defenders ever to grace the game, and we had them. We’ve been blessed with some truly great centre-halves so as you can imagine, getting five down on paper was hard enough but then to rank them was...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 29, 2011 | Footie
by Ben Thornley IT WAS the goal that prompted a hastily released DVD and my even speedier exit. Andrew Johnson, enjoying his finest game in an Everton shirt, pounced on Pepe Reina’s failure to deal with Lee Carsley’s long-range effort to complete the Blues’...
by Steve Graves | Sep 28, 2011 | Footie
A lot of things have been pissing me off lately. Allow me to share. It might help. As I write this I’m veering between a right old rage and a fit of the giggles at Conservative blogknob Iain Dale’s attack on ‘ghastly’ Liverpool. Let’s save that for another day. Lots...
by Steve Graves | Sep 28, 2011 | Footie
LIVERPOOL is a football city. Few could argue with the assertion, but what does that really mean, and how are Liverpool and its people different from, say, Manchester or Newcastle in their relationship with the game? Sociologist John Williams is the author of Red Men,...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 28, 2011 | Footie
By James Owens FIRST of all, a bit of relevant background. I was 16 days short of my fourth birthday on the 15th of April 1989. I live near the town of Stafford, where I was born to a Welsh father who prefers rugby and has no allegiance to any football club, and an...
by Kristian Walsh | Sep 26, 2011 | Footie
HE LOVES me, he loves me not. He loves me, he loves me not. He loves me, he loves me not. He loves me. He loves me not. For anyone who’s ever been dumped in a relationship, the subsequent pining for that person will be an uncomfortable, unwelcome memory. For days,...
by Paul Rogers | Sep 26, 2011 | Footie
I NEVER saw The Clash play live. I was just 10 when the band sacked Mick Jones but if I could go back in time and had the choice of seeing any band from any era or any country play, I’d pick The Clash. Every time. On Saturday night, I didn’t quite go back in time but...
by Ian Maloney | Sep 26, 2011 | Footie
This isn’t the largest ‘Caja de los truenos’ (can of worms) we’ll open in this series as the pool of which to choose from isn’t vast; but the circumstances in which certain señors vacated Anfield clearly plays a part and that’s the tricky bit. In fact, we feel, in...
