by Kristian Walsh | Aug 9, 2011 | Footie
SITTING in a room filled with darkness and the quiet crackle of the radio wondering where, when and what the next noise will be. Somewhere in the distance – or it could be closer – a cat screeches. A dash to the window, a quick search, a deep breath out. An...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 8, 2011 | Podcast
WELL, not strictly speaking, as I’m sure some of you have had a listen to the pilot edition that we uploaded last week. The initial intention was to keep it in house, hide it away from the world, but we thought, you know what, sod it, we’ll let it out and...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 8, 2011 | Footie
IT’S Thursday, July 21st, just before 10pm. I find myself above The Old Blue last in Shoreditch awaiting a hastily arranged gig by the man Noel Gallagher once described as the only contemporary songwriter who scares the shit out of him. Liam is also in...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 8, 2011 | Footie
OUR most successful manager was about to take charge for his first season. Twenty trophies in nine seasons, and he didn’t really want the job, what a genius. I somehow reckon he was worth the £10 signing-on fee and his £5 weekly wage back in 1939. Liverpool’s...
by Rory Smith | Aug 8, 2011 | Footie
THERE is a mantra which swirls around English football these days, one of those phrases that has been repeated often enough to make itself a truth. It pays no heed to evidence, requires no proof. It simply is. It has always been. It goes like this: you can only win...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 8, 2011
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by Tony Evans | Aug 8, 2011 | Footie
BEER and football go together. Both have been demonised and sneered at over the years. And some people have fallen for it. Wine drinkers. Two of the worst trends in British society over the last 25 years have been football’s move upmarket and the creeping...
by Roy Henderson | Aug 8, 2011 | Featured Writing, Footie
BARCA. These days we’re reading more and more on the subject of Barca. Guardiola this, and La Masia that – every trophy they add to the cabinet comes with fresh proclamations of their righteousness – it’s not only fashionable to do so,...
by Kristian Walsh | Aug 7, 2011 | Footie
“[it] … was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge it successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.” – George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty Four MENTION the year 1984 to Liverpool supporters and...