WHEN ‘that’ announcement finally came this January, that Kenny was to return as our manager, the joy that greeted the news was something of a strange communal experience for the Liverpool FC supporting fraternity. One sensed that for the younger generation the return...
ONE of the most glorious weekends of the year is the first weekend of June. The summer sunshine makes a conceited effort to emerge from the clouds and grace your bedroom; its quick glance over the parapet promises much, but opts to stay in its fluffy white nest...
INSPIRED by Gareth Roberts’ fantastic piece on this site about his love for all things Scouse when it comes to his listening pleasures – dodgy Pop Will Eat single aside – I’ve compiled my own personal top 10 favourite songs from this city....
AS I walked up to the Static Gallery on Roscoe Lane, familiarity swirled around me like the warm, midsummer breeze that tickled my face. The public houses of Renshaw Street, some of which had been reacquainted over the course of the early evening, pre-empted the...
MARK Hayhurst is a centre half. As a centre half myself, and with maybe my best playing days behind me, it’s a rare treat in life to meet someone who shares the centre half’s peculiar view of the park – of seeing the play unfold, and of figuring out...
I wrote this in The Times in 2009. A lot of people will not have seen it. I’m not sure I can say anything to add to it. Nothing has changed since I wrote it. I still go back there, too often. God knows what the people who really suffered go through. THE last time I...
JUSTICE can be delayed but not avoided, the truth hidden but never truly buried, the facts obfuscated but never fully erased. RESPONSIBILITY. It’s the word on everybody’s lips in response to the rioting which spread around the UK last week. Particularly keen on the R...
LAST week on The Anfield Wrap you may have stumbled across a piece I wrote about how I’d somehow fallen out of love with trainers; how these days I’m more likely to go out and buy a pair of suede Clarks Originals than the latest ‘must-have’...
AS you’ll hear in a minute when you press play on that thing that accompanies this thing, there will be two voices. One is mine. One isn’t. You’ll soon discover which is mine and which is that of the award winning documentary maker, Steve James. And when you make that...
FOR Liverpool FC fans there was an interesting footnote to the spree of arson and looting which took place in parts of the city early last week. In a commendable if largely tokenistic move, Liverpool and Everton jointly released statements from senior players and...
