by Neil Atkinson | Jun 11, 2012 | Footie
HEREAFTER follows the first of a three-part story about Ukraine. There will be some factual information about Ukraine in there but if you want some actual tactical analysis you can do little better than these links from intelligent men....
by The Anfield Wrap | Jun 11, 2012 | Podcast
Neil, Rob, Gareth, Jim, Mike, Andy, Nick are joined by Paul Machin of the Redmen as they look back on the first week of Euro 2012, have a chat about about who’s impressed them, how lads have done as well as the usual nonsense #TAW46 GET ON IT Direct link to...
by Steve Graves | Jun 11, 2012 | Footie
CAVEATS are a right pain. Normally you squirrel them away somewhere in a piece, after you’ve said the stuff you mean and before you try and wrap it all up with some kind of smart/meaningful/at-least-conclusive line. I can’t be doing with them, generally. They’re the...
by Kristian Walsh | Jun 11, 2012 | Footie
AND it had started so well. The brown seats as you walk in – frayed, fretted, frowned upon – give confirmation of their popularity. The indent created by the last person becomes yours; it is half-perturbing, half-welcoming knowing how many have come before you and how...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jun 10, 2012 | Footie
By Richard Turvey The Blaggers Guide… Perhaps I should start by explaining who I am…my name is Richard Turvey and I’m the sound engineer at Parr St Studios for The Anfield Wrap. I’ve never been a particularly avid football fan. I blame most of this upon one fateful...
by Andy Heaton | Jun 9, 2012 | Footie
CASILLAS, Ramos, Alonso, Xavi, Iniesta, Fabregas, Silva, Mata, Torres. Just reading those names aloud is just beautiful isn’t it? But can they do it? Can Vicente Del Bosque’s men triumph Euro 2012 and achieve what no team in history has before by winning...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jun 9, 2012 | Footie
THE Euros got off to a flyer yesterday with cracking games between Poland and Greece and Russia and Czech Republic. That’s left us footie fans counting down the hours to tonight’s matches – Holland v Denmark (Kharkiv, 5pm, BBC1) and Germany v...
by Kristian Walsh | Jun 8, 2012 | Footie
ANDY BRASSELL is a wonderful man with a fine CV: he is European Football Correspondent for Fox Soccer, BBC Worldwide and ESPN Soccernet, as well as appearing on BBC Five Live. But more importantly for us, he’s with Portugal at their training camp throughout Euro...
by John Gibbons | Jun 8, 2012 | Footie
THAT, for the non German speaking amongst you, means “Get up if you’re supporting Germany!” Well I am most certainly up, and thanks to a ridiculously complicated random draw on The Anfield Wrap that I still don’t really understand, I am supporting Germany. I was...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jun 8, 2012 | Podcast
Neil hosts the City Talk football phone in and is joined in the studio by the elasticated jeans wearing Steve Graves Direct link to The Anfield Wrap on City Talk Phone In #2 download Podcast RSS feed iTunes [smart_track_player...