JOINING Gareth Roberts in the studio for the second And Could He Play were Neil Atkinson and Neil Scott. This time the legend is someone who loved a big game as much as he loved a big tackle. The unsung player was once compared to a fluffy animal by a Liverpool...
WE’VE asked some of The Anfield Wrap’s regular contributors to crawl around the loft and look under the bed to dig out some of their most treasured ticket stubs and tell us the tales behind them. Third with his favourite five is STEVEN SCRAGG. My Liverpool-watching...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined for this week’s Tuesday Review by Sean Rogers and Ian Salmon as the trio discuss Liverpool’s comparative struggle to score goals this season and how it could undermine the run in to the end of the season. Direct Link – TAW...
RAHEEM, lad, stop messing, writes MELISSA REDDY. Throwback to five years ago, and Raheem Sterling — shy and self-conscious — was fidgeting around in his suit from Next as he waited to collect an award. He was 15, had no media experience, and was terrified...
FOOTBALL — perhaps more than any other industry — loves its heroes. It loves creating them, it loves rewarding them, it loves showing them off and, ultimately, it loves to destroy them. Fuelled by a combination of supporter adulation, media hype and...
THERE was a time when it looked like it wouldn’t happen for Peter Crouch at Liverpool. Arriving at the home of the reigning European Champions from Southampton for a fee of £7million, the 6ft 7ins striker from Macclesfield was written off by many before he even...
HAVE you ever looked up Barcelona’s honours list? I just did. I knew it would be good. But for the record it reads: 22 times La Liga Champions, 26 times Copa del Rey winners, four times European Cup winners (smiles) and four times European Cup Winners’ Cup winners....
NEIL ATKINSON was joined by Adam Smith, Gareth Roberts and Ben Johnson for Monday’s regular Anfield Wrap podcast. The lads talk about Steven Gerrard’s LFC Foundation match on Sunday and the return to Anfield of some past heroes, including the crowd’s...
FINALLY free. You, me and Fernando, writes MELISSA REDDY. There was a delay of a few seconds; unintentionally deliberate and dramatic. The song, that song was being sung again. Lips were moving and ‘Fernando Torres, Liverpool’s number nine’ was loudly in motion, but...
AT least we had the sense to get out of it before Christmas, we could see what was coming — Madrid had already shown us. R.I.P English Football, we’ll be back down to three qualification spots before you know it, writes BEN McCAUSLAND. With the hand-wringing,...
