by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 15, 2011 | Footie
Thirty Years On, Has Anything Changed? While many people reading this won’t have seen the League Trophy at Anfield, a few of us here at TheAnfieldWrap have witnessed the memory several times. This last week has seen a few things that have reminded us of days gone by....
by Gareth Roberts | Aug 14, 2011 | Footie
FOUR consecutive top-four finishes, a genuine title challenge, a League Cup in the trophy cabinet and an FA Cup final. It’s a quartet of campaigns that would have fans of clubs from across the land in raptures. Add an exciting brand of football, arguably some of the...
by Andy Heaton | Aug 14, 2011 | Footie
NOT active in the first phase of play. Going away from goal. Allowing the game to flow. Not wanting to ruin the game as a spectacle. What a load of shite. Referees are there to apply to rules, not to ‘interpret’ them as they see fit, but unfortunately, in...
by Scot Williams | Aug 12, 2011 | Footie, Hillsborough
WHAT I’m about to write is true. In 1996, the night before a big audition, I had a dream. It was a Thursday night I think. THIRTY SEVEN, THIRTY SEVEN, THIRTY SEVEN, THIRTY SEVEN, THIRTY SEVEN, that’s all I could remember of this dream. The Number 37, that’s all it...
by Ian Maloney | Aug 11, 2011 | Footie
PANIC on the streets of London, panic on the streets of Birmingham… and a bit in Manchester, West Bromwich and Liverpool to remix a well-known Smiths intro. But despite the countrywide acts of a desperate minority, I’d say things are looking pretty positive – a mood...
by Steve Graves | Aug 10, 2011 | Footie
GROWING up in North Wales, a trip to Chester of a Saturday afternoon was about as exciting as weeks got – at least weeks without the prospect of a trip to Anfield. Back in the mid 90s I had some favourite haunts which reflected my status as a particularly tragic...
by Rory Smith | Aug 10, 2011 | Footie
ENGLAND is schizophrenic. There is one country on television, an End-of-Days-land, where swarms of black-hooded youths saunter from shop to shop, unchallenged, unabashed, looting, smashing, their destruction wanton and their authority absolute. This is England, broken...
by Gareth Roberts | Aug 10, 2011 | Footie
SOME people have a crystal clear memory to call upon. They can pinpoint, to the day, even the hour, when significant milestones in their life took place. I can’t. So ask me what the first record I bought was and I don’t know. The first I can remember, actual vinyl,...
by Kristian Walsh | Aug 9, 2011 | Footie
SITTING in a room filled with darkness and the quiet crackle of the radio wondering where, when and what the next noise will be. Somewhere in the distance – or it could be closer – a cat screeches. A dash to the window, a quick search, a deep breath out. An...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 8, 2011 | Footie
IT’S Thursday, July 21st, just before 10pm. I find myself above The Old Blue last in Shoreditch awaiting a hastily arranged gig by the man Noel Gallagher once described as the only contemporary songwriter who scares the shit out of him. Liam is also in...
