by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 18, 2013 | Footie
LAST month the drummer from The Charlatans, Jon Brookes, died at the age of 44 from a brain tumour. Having fought the disease since 2010 and after undergoing a number of operations Jon had been able to return to working with the band on new material during the summer...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 18, 2013 | Footie
RED TOUCH MEDIA AND THE ANFIELD WRAP: IN OUR LIVERPOOL HOME THE ANFIELD WRAP is to share a new Liverpool waterfront home with Red Touch Media as part of an exciting link-up with the hi-tech media company. TAW – which now incorporates a podcast, radio show, website...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 17, 2013 | Podcast
Neil, Andy, Rob and Gibbo talk about the title run in, a point made made, dynamic debuts, Aspasian angst and central midfield quandries. Direct link to PODCAST: LIBPOOL, TOP OF THE LEAGUE Podcast RSS feed iTunes [smart_track_player...
by Trevor Downey | Sep 17, 2013 | Footie
WE live in an era of almost crippling political correctness, in which the need to be viewed as non-discriminatory is often paralysing; and yet, when it comes to football and friendship, favouritism is a process of differentiation in which we all engage openly and...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 17, 2013 | Footie
LAST October, following on from the publication of the Hillsborough Independent Panel’s report, the Independent Police Complaints Commission launched an investigation into allegations of police misconduct or criminal behaviour during the aftermath of the Hillsborough...
by Andy Heaton | Sep 15, 2013 | Footie
*DISCLAIMER – I GOT A D IN GCSE MATHS AND TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY WHATSOEVER FOR THE ACCURACY OF THE CALCULATIONS. SOZ. **Serious for a second, any obvious mistakes, please let me know and i’ll happily correct them, but every effort has been taken to ensure...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 13, 2013 | Podcast
Neil was joined up the tower by Rob Gutmann, Mike Nevin and Kristian Walsh to talk about the price of footy and the latest on the Anfield stadium redevelopment saga, as well as a look ahead to Liverpool’s trip to Swansea on Monday. Music this week from The...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 11, 2013 | Podcast
John has the decency to turn up between engagements to find only Neil and Steph have a voice and Adam is almost in the recovery position. Expect tales of tears and dancing for this is The Rider after the Bestival Festival. Direct link to THE RIDER: JOHNNY HOLIDAYS...
by Neil Atkinson | Sep 10, 2013 | Footie
This fiction is initially inspired by this tweet from Andy Burnham. And my own immediate response to it. ATKINSON – FOOTBALL FLATFOOT (2) [The first Chapter One of Atkinson – Football Flatfoot is available here] Chapter 1 – The Proposition Sticky Liverpool...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 10, 2013 | Footie
By Phil Blundell “ENGLISH football is a tanker that needs turning. The real challenge for us looking forward is that we’ve gone from 70% English players in the Premier League to 30% and it’s still falling. If that continues, we won’t have a...