by Karl Coppack | Feb 8, 2017 | Footie
LET me take you back to a painful day in our recent history. Sunday April 27, 2014. Liverpool 0 Chelsea 2. That one. I was low down on The Kop that day with my mate Tony. Front row, corner flag. We were so close to the action that we could have tapped Iago Aspas on...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 8, 2017 | Back Page, Podcast, TAW Player
GARETH Roberts is joined by Stephen Evans, Josh Sexton and Jay McKenna for another look at football’s relationship with the media. Are managers forced into holding too many press conferences? What does a good one and a bad one look like? And is it all getting a...
by Neil Atkinson | Feb 8, 2017 | Footie
THREE years to the day since the best 20 minutes of your life. Liverpool beat Arsenal 5-1 on this day in 2014. The first 20 minutes were the best 20 minutes of your life or you just aren’t doing it right. Your life I mean — you aren’t doing your life...
by Phil Blundell | Feb 8, 2017 | Footie
IT happened, didn’t it? The thing you thought might not happen again, that you’d convinced yourself might be a thing of the past, that you thought had disappeared. Yeah, that’s right you thought that the brain-fart had been eliminated from Simon Mignolet’s game. But...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 7, 2017 | Podcast, TAW Player, The Coach Home
It’s a podcast of two halves this week. In part one Neil Atkinson and John Gibbons talk to Bournemouth fan James Roach about recent injuries and defensive issues at the club. Could The Cherries be pulled into a relegation battle? In part two John Gibbons speaks...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 7, 2017 | Footie
HOW apt that this latest defeat occurred just after Groundhog Day in the United States, writes DAVID TULLY. The Reds, it’s fair to say, have been hiding in their own burrow ever since December 31. Here we are, just a little over a month since George blared out...
by Neil Scott | Feb 7, 2017 | Footie
I FIRST got a season ticket in 1982. Main Stand, somewhere between the half-way line and the Anny Road penalty box. Not yet 16 and already leaving the tumult, the chaos and the ever-present threat of damp feet that marked The Kop’s unique appeal way behind. The hope...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 7, 2017 | Podcast, TAW Player
Our Review show sees Neil Atkinson, Sean Rogers and Ben Johnson rake over the coals of Hull City away. It’s not for the gentle hearted. Indeed, some are rating it as NSFLFC. In-depth looks at the stats, what they tell us, the spirit, the shape and the questions...
by Paul Cope | Feb 7, 2017 | Footie
MY mates would tell you I’m too much of a knob to be a full-back, they’re usually a quiet bunch who keep themselves to themselves and keep things ticking along, not causing any trouble or getting drunk. I think my dark side comes from always wanting to be a centre...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 6, 2017 | AFQ Football, Podcast, TAW Player
JOINING Gareth Roberts for a first-ever AFQ Football, Mike Nevin, Melissa Reddy and Paul Cope field a series of quick-fire footie questions about anything and everything, from favourite away ends to FSG, from the ills of modern footie fan culture to best barnets....
