by Steve Graves | Aug 15, 2011 | Footie
FOR Liverpool FC fans there was an interesting footnote to the spree of arson and looting which took place in parts of the city early last week. In a commendable if largely tokenistic move, Liverpool and Everton jointly released statements from senior players and...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 15, 2011 | Podcast
HOST Neil Atkinson is joined by Rob Gutmann, Rory Smith of The Telegraph, Jim Boardman, Gareth Roberts, Phil Blundell and Kristian Walsh in our second episode as they discuss the damp squib which was the Sunderland game, review the weekend’s other fixtures,...
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,...
