We’re Not Far Off The Right Blend

“And he huffed and he puffed and he huffed and he puffed, and eventually he blew the house in.” Narrator – The Three Little Pigs WE all trudged home or switched off our streams in the wake of the weekend game with West Brom, and immediately on...

GIG REVIEW: THE SOUND OF GUNS

By Andy Thornley Sound of Guns – Cargo, London (Thursday 19 April) Have you heard The Sound of Guns? No, I’m not a bizzy conducting door to door enquires – I’m talking about the scouse band that’s been causing a splash on the music scene of late. The Anfield Wrap sent...

Interview – The Tea Street Band

SINCE featuring music on The Anfield Wrap’s City Talk podcast, the band that we have had the greatest positive response to has been The Tea Street Band. So I met up with singer Timo Tierney and keyboard player James Albertina for a brew to talk music and their...

THE ANFIELD WRAP ON CITY TALK #6

THE HODGE FILES Neil is joined by Rob Gutmann, Jim Boardman and special guest and BBC sport journalist Ben Smith as they pick the bones out of the impending Wembley travel chaos before moving on to West Brom at the weekend and the return of the Roy Hodgson. TAW ON...
The Hodge Files

The Hodge Files

Here we are. A labour of love. Well, not love. Most definitely not love. But a labour. This is my friend Ben Johnson’s (@benjanijohnson on Twitter) Hodge File. It isn’t definitive. He only started maintaining it when he realised exactly what we were dealing with when...

AN UNPOPULARITY CONTEST?

By Karl Coppack A thread on a Liverpool forum recently asked if LFC are becoming hated. The opening post read… “Ahead of today’s game Moyes had been saying that neutrals want Everton to win. Now I know he’s playing games but it got me thinking, I...

Pro – Your Help Gratefully Received

On a couple of podcasts recently I’ve been discussing the short film I’ve written and produced called “Pro”. Pro is the story of a fictional footballer, Thomas Ryder, who gets himself into a spot of bother on Twitter and who is being quietly stalked by a...

THE FOOTBALL BUBBLE

THE football bubble is simple. In it, anything goes. People think and act differently. They take leave of their senses. Common sense goes out of the window. Dignity is forgotten; respect means nothing. Abuse is fine in the bubble. Ditto racism, violence and bigotry....

My Slovak moment

By Andy Thornley I DID something incredibly stupid on Sunday. I ran a marathon. Making the ultimate cardinal sin of failing to check the fixture guide before agreeing to something, I booked myself and the missus in to 26.2 miles of pain, taking place over in Paris. I...