by Stephen Martin | Feb 18, 2012 | Footie
THE 12 or 13, window seat, strange pattern, stranger feel, wet floor, thinking about Tumbles toy shop. Bubble bus stops, reading graffiti swear words, and City Pets, straight in, glowing fish tanks, strange smells, afraid of the Piranha, asking for a tortoise, mum...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 17, 2012 | Footie
BY NEIL SCOTT “It’s not for glory. It’s not for honour. Just something someone said.” [Turquoise Days – Echo and the Bunnymen] AS manifestos go, it’s near perfect. It speaks of mystery, of unease, of ambition thwarted. It hints at a nagging sense of dislocation,...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 17, 2012 | Footie
INDEPENDENT and uncensored, it’s fair to say the The Redmen TV isn’t quite the same as the official Liverpool FC TV channel but its popularity is growing as more and more Reds get on its irreverent and honest style of programming. Paul Machin and Chris Pajak are the...
by Steve Graves | Feb 17, 2012 | Footie
SOME football websites exist purely to create controversy. Shock value is their currency, getting a rise out of a group of fans considered a good day’s work in the minds of their creators and contributors. The Anfield Wrap is emphatically not among them. I’d be...
by Rob Gutmann | Feb 16, 2012 | Footie
IT seems clarification is in order. I suppose I must have subconsciously known it when penning a piece on Suarez and Evra that even going near the subject of Heysel was going to provoke reaction. I decided to go with it, to be brutually honest, not for...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 16, 2012 | Footie
by Kate Forrester LAZY. Incompetent. Biased. Scum. Parasite. As a working journalist, I have been called all of the above at least once (but not all at the same time, usually). And I haven’t really done anything more controversial than sit in magistrates’ court and...
by Karl Coppack | Feb 15, 2012 | Footie
By Karl Coppack ‘Oh, you know, strikes and gutters, ups and downs…’ – The Dude RECENTLY I was talking to a few mates about the rise and demise of LFC over the past few years. We discussed how it’s possible for us to go from dicking both Man United and Madrid in...
by Steve Graves | Feb 15, 2012 | Footie
HITACHI, Crown Paints, Candy, Carlsberg, Standard Chartered. Japanese electricals, paint, washing machines, beer, financial services. Which company’s product are you most likely to buy? Which is most likely to be found in a house in L4? Let’s try another....
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 14, 2012 | Footie
The following article was reproduced with permission from The Times By John Barnes IT’S not about football, it’s about destroying modern myths of colour, race and superiority In 1987 a black friend of mine went into a shop to buy a coat. He asked the assistant...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 13, 2012 | Podcast
THIS week Neil is joined by Rob, Mike, Kristian, Jim, Andy and very special guests Daniel Hunt and Earl Jenkins. Usual script with the lads as they dissect the Spurs and United games before discussing the fallout from the events at Old Trafford at the weekend. #TAW29...
