LIVERPOOL: I LEAVE ANFIELD EARLY…SO WHAT?!

BIT of background first, writes LES JACKSON. I’m 57 years old and one of those miserable sods the TAW regulars constantly go on about who’s been going the match for years (since 1968, actually) and sits in the Lower Centenary moaning incessantly and generally being a...

WHAT IF… LIVERPOOL HAD SIGNED CRISTIANO RONALDO?

IN a new regular TAW feature we ask: “What if…”. So many things in football hinge on moments, on split-second decisions and on judgement calls, including buying and selling players and appointing certain managers (or not). To kick things off, David...
THE COACH HOME: SIX OF ONE

THE COACH HOME: SIX OF ONE

NEIL ATKINSON and John Gibbons chat away to Dave Downie about Everton and the importance of the forthcoming league cup tie against Middlesbrough. That and any subsequent semi-final could, argues Dave, be definitive in any assessment of Martinez. They also speak to...

LIVERPOOL: WHAT NEXT FOR PHILIPPE COUTINHO? #2

BACK in July and August, on the eve of the new season, Anfield Wrap writers looked at what the future could hold for players and manager at Liverpool FC as the big kick-off loomed large. A lot has happened since then, not least the sacking of Brendan Rodgers and...

LIVERPOOL: THE TWELFTH MAN IN CRISIS?

ON current form, if the once famous Anfield roar really was our “Twelfth Man”, he would have been ignominiously hauled off before half-time never to pull on a red jersey again, writes DAVID WEBBER. Blame for his decline is usually attributed towards the...

WELL READ: THREE BELTERS

NEIL ATKINSON is joined by Gerry Donaldson, Steve Graves and Gareth Roberts to talk about another three books for Well Read. These books are Thirty One Nil – On The Road With Football’s Outsiders by James Montague – his look at football’s...