by Steve Graves | Sep 28, 2011 | Footie
LIVERPOOL is a football city. Few could argue with the assertion, but what does that really mean, and how are Liverpool and its people different from, say, Manchester or Newcastle in their relationship with the game? Sociologist John Williams is the author of Red Men,...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 28, 2011 | Footie
By James Owens FIRST of all, a bit of relevant background. I was 16 days short of my fourth birthday on the 15th of April 1989. I live near the town of Stafford, where I was born to a Welsh father who prefers rugby and has no allegiance to any football club, and an...
by Kristian Walsh | Sep 26, 2011 | Footie
HE LOVES me, he loves me not. He loves me, he loves me not. He loves me, he loves me not. He loves me. He loves me not. For anyone who’s ever been dumped in a relationship, the subsequent pining for that person will be an uncomfortable, unwelcome memory. For days,...
by Paul Rogers | Sep 26, 2011 | Footie
I NEVER saw The Clash play live. I was just 10 when the band sacked Mick Jones but if I could go back in time and had the choice of seeing any band from any era or any country play, I’d pick The Clash. Every time. On Saturday night, I didn’t quite go back in time but...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 26, 2011 | Podcast
This week, Neil is joined by Kristian Walsh, Rob Gutmann, Mike Girling, David Rawcliffe, Brian Durand, Jim Boardman, Gareth Roberts and in a hand across the park gesture of peace, representing the bitters, Barrie White. Wolves, Brighton, Bellends, Politicisation,...
by Ian Maloney | Sep 26, 2011 | Footie
This isn’t the largest ‘Caja de los truenos’ (can of worms) we’ll open in this series as the pool of which to choose from isn’t vast; but the circumstances in which certain señors vacated Anfield clearly plays a part and that’s the tricky bit. In fact, we feel, in...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 25, 2011 | Footie
by Philip BlundellTHERE are a number of Wordsmiths that write on this website. I am not a Wordsmith by any stretch of the imagination, but I’d be intrigued to see if any of them could describe the people who are filling our ground with negativity with a better word...
by Rob Gutmann | Sep 21, 2011 | Footie
MATT HUGHES of the Times, this week, became the latest journalist, from a growing chorus, to sing from the roof tops about his discontent at Kenny Dalglish’s handling of the British press. He states in his column with unrestrained pomposity : “ The Liverpool manager’s...
by Roy Henderson | Sep 20, 2011 | Footie
JOHN HASSAY. He’s pleased to meet you. In fact, of the people I’ve met in my life so far, it’s probably fair to say there are few people who have seemed more pleased to meet me than he was. John Hassay has that rare gift of making you feel...
by Steve Graves | Sep 20, 2011 | Footie
AS the hedge fund managers using Twitter to gauge the public mood have realised, social media offers a window into our collective hive mind, with all the horrors that entails. While the online environment can distort some ideas, giving undue prominence to the...
