by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 29, 2011 | Footie
Reluctant Champion: The Authorised Biography By Andrew Fagan and Mark Platt ‘When you are in the football business there are only two ways to go and you are better to be a hero than a villain . . . Joe was definitely a hero.’ Kenny Dalglish ‘No disrespect to...
by Steve Graves | Aug 29, 2011 | Footie
FOR all the misgivings Arsenal fans have felt crowding in on them in recent seasons, for all the warning signs over a summer in which the club have managed to gain new, wealthy ownership and yet lose key players, few can have imagined it would come to this. Their...
by Rob Gutmann | Aug 28, 2011 | Footie
BACK in the dark days, when a Texan tyrant roamed free in the 2nd city of Empire, debt was the new black, and Liverpool football club was hurtling towards a never imagined abyss, its chief financier and ultimate unlikely knight in shining armour, the Royal Bank of...
by Paul Rogers | Aug 28, 2011 | Footie
LAST week when picking 10 of my favourite Scouse tunes, I claimed I couldn’t really get my head around Liverpool fans who don’t like music from Manchester. If it’s a good tune, it’s a good tune – and, as Rakim once famously rapped,...
by Scot Williams | Aug 26, 2011 | Footie
I had to think long and hard about compiling this list. Who would I include? Who would I exclude? Why would I include and exclude them? Regardless of my choices I was always going to leave someone out, piss someone off; and besides, on what grounds would I make my...
by Rob Gutmann | Aug 26, 2011 | Footie
HERE-IN follows a joint review of two south Liverpool food gaffs that have benefited from my custom on a recent frequency that goes beyond decency. Turkish barbecue mecca ‘Elif’ on Lark Lane, and ‘Friends Kebab’ on Smithdown Road have seen far too much of me lately. I...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 26, 2011 | Footie
I went to the Edinburgh Fringe festival. That’s what I did. Three days in the company of my friend Stu. I’m going to tell you about it. But let me make clear, I’m no expert on the old stand-up comedy. I like it when I see it, but I’m not that...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 24, 2011 | Footie
At the time of writing over 120,000 people have signed the Government e-petition asking for full disclosure of all government documents relating to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. This means the case must now legally be discussed in the commons. If you haven’t...
by Steve Graves | Aug 23, 2011 | Footie
DIPPING in to Arsenal’s first-leg win over Udinese last week on Five Live, I was struck by a comment from co-commentator Lee Dixon. Praising some intervention or other on the part of Thomas Vermaelen, Dixon referred to the Belgian as a ‘centre-half’,...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 23, 2011 | Footie
A quick glance at the TV listings for this week in 1984 uncovers a long-forgotten memory that Tom O’Connor actually had his own show on BBC2. This was when Channel 4 soap Brookside was still in its early days with “George determined to track down Tommy...
