by Neil Atkinson | Nov 25, 2015 | Footie
IN writing about Bordeaux at home in the Europa League you are writing about Swansea City at home in the Premier League. Because you know, don’t you. You know aspects of the study that shows the impact Europa League games has can be hotly disputed but you also...
by Phil Greene | Nov 25, 2015 | Footie
LUCAS nearly left Liverpool in the summer. Lucas nearly left Liverpool in the summer. Lucas nearly left Liverpool in the summer. Re-read and repeat that phrase a few times and notice how quickly the notion becomes nonsensical and ridiculous. Keep going and the...
by The Anfield Wrap | Nov 25, 2015 | Ban This Filth, Podcast, TAW Player
NEIL ATKINSON in the chair as Gareth Roberts, Phil Blundell and John Gibbons square off against each other for the first EVER edition of BAN THIS FILTH!!!! The premise, Neil takes a multiple choice question, and Gareth, Phil and John offer their answers up. The three...
by Simon Hughes | Nov 25, 2015 | Footie
IT is one of those strange football contradictions: you never quite know what you are going to get from Jürgen Klopp, even when asking the most simple of questions. Yet the manager strives for a form of consistency; a predictability even, in his forcefulness that all...
by The Anfield Wrap | Nov 24, 2015 | Podcast, TAW Player
NEIL ATKINSON, Paul Cope and Sean Rogers, what more could you want? The tricky trio pouring over Liverpool Football Club’s demolition job over the champions elect, that’s what! Was the set-up a surprise and if so why? Room for improvement? Why were...
by The Anfield Wrap | Nov 24, 2015 | Footie
SO I wrote something on Roberto Firmino back in August, writes CRAIG RIMMER. To summarise, it was more or less an attempt to brand our new Brazilian idol-in-waiting as something of an exciting, if unknown, quantity — an expensive, statement signing but one with...
by The Anfield Wrap | Nov 24, 2015 | Footie
“JAYSUS. Is that a nipple?” As I’m trying to work out whether we can get away with “nipple” on the BBC, I nod at the man I’ve thrust a microphone under the nose of, writes LAURA BROWN. Yes, I explain, it’s an artwork by Yoko Ono called My Mommy is Beautiful,...
by John Gibbons | Nov 24, 2015 | Footie
FAVOURITE moment from Saturday? For many of the 3,000 lucky enough to be there, it would have been this one. Martin Skrtel, having just slid on his knees towards the away fans, holds his arms aloft in front of the delirious crowd joined by team-mates so keen to join...
by The Anfield Wrap | Nov 23, 2015 | Podcast, TAW Player
THE COACH HOME this week has Bobby Gardner to discuss Swansea. What is happening with Garry Monk? What should happen who has been performing? Who has been letting the side down? They are a patient club Swansea, with their own way of doing things. Bobby lets us know...
by The Anfield Wrap | Nov 23, 2015 | Basic, Podcast, TAW Player, What We Call History
A FINAL! Somehow a final. A final is a final and Liverpool win it against Manchester United. What else? A corner of sorts is finally turned and Liverpool go to Celtic Park. The final part of 02/03 with Mike Nevin and Craig Rimmer, hosted by Neil Atkinson. And the...
