by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 25, 2011 | Footie
by Philip BlundellTHERE are a number of Wordsmiths that write on this website. I am not a Wordsmith by any stretch of the imagination, but I’d be intrigued to see if any of them could describe the people who are filling our ground with negativity with a better word...
by Rob Gutmann | Sep 21, 2011 | Footie
MATT HUGHES of the Times, this week, became the latest journalist, from a growing chorus, to sing from the roof tops about his discontent at Kenny Dalglish’s handling of the British press. He states in his column with unrestrained pomposity : “ The Liverpool manager’s...
by Roy Henderson | Sep 20, 2011 | Footie
JOHN HASSAY. He’s pleased to meet you. In fact, of the people I’ve met in my life so far, it’s probably fair to say there are few people who have seemed more pleased to meet me than he was. John Hassay has that rare gift of making you feel...
by Steve Graves | Sep 20, 2011 | Footie
AS the hedge fund managers using Twitter to gauge the public mood have realised, social media offers a window into our collective hive mind, with all the horrors that entails. While the online environment can distort some ideas, giving undue prominence to the...
by Roy Henderson | Sep 20, 2011 | Footie
IT’S a horrible, gut-wrenching feeling, isn’t it? A day that started well (kids ate their toasty soldiers over the Barca v Osasuna highlights) has stumbled and stuttered towards its midpoint, and shows every sign of trundling down the proverbial gurgler...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 20, 2011 | Footie
NEIL CONDRON interviews THE TEA STREET BAND for The Anfield Wrap. WHILE the rain poured down on most of the country this summer, a solitary ray of Balearic sunshine was warming parts of Liverpool and bringing some of its favourite sons back out from the shade. Formed...
by Neil Atkinson | Sep 20, 2011 | Footie
ANDREW FAGAN (Joe’s Grandson) and Mark Platt have delivered a thorough and fitting biography of a true footballing gent. It concentrates as much on football as the man himself clearly did; what drips from every page is Joe Fagan’s love of the game. It’s there as...
by Stephen Martin | Sep 19, 2011 | Footie
Sunday 18th September, 2011 FAR REMOVED from the sterile commercialism of Liverpool One, ‘Hope Street Feast’ has found a home between our two symbolic cathedrals. A home that is now synonymous with chronology, culture and creativity. If you add families and flair to...
by Karl Coppack | Sep 17, 2011 | Footie
By Karl Coppack “I disagree with everything you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it?” – Evelyn Beatrice Hall I NEVER thought I would be using this quote (erroneously attributed to Voltaire incidentally) in conjunction with the...
by Jay McKenna | Sep 17, 2011 | Footie
THE MUCH used and quite frankly daft comment that gets bandied about when someone gets wound up by something they have seen or read online. It’s easy to say. It is the internet. It is something that you can switch off. Yet it isn’t that simple to do or take on board....
