by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 15, 2012 | Footie
By Simon Ellis-Jones Producer, World Football Focus, BBC Sport HILLSBOROUGH. The word is tough to write, even harder to say out loud. Twenty-three years have passed since that day. A huge number of football fans going to games this week will not even have been born...
by Tony Evans | Apr 14, 2012 | Footie
Alan Davies got it wrong on Twitter but in the real world there are far more serious issues for fans TOMORROW John Glover will try to go to Anfield for the annual memorial service on the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster. If he can get there, it will be his...
by Kristian Walsh | Apr 13, 2012 | Footie
IF you hold your ear close enough, you can hear it. You can hear it on buses, in office blocks and pubs. It’s heard in north Liverpool, south Liverpool and across the ripples of the River Mersey. There’s a hushed whisper around the city of Liverpool; a...
by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 13, 2012 | Podcast
Neil chaired a 90 minute four v four special in the lead up to the biggest derby in decades as Gareth Roberts, Paul Smith Jr, James Pearce and Mike Girling squared up against Greg O’Keeffe, Peter McPartland, David Downie and Mick Callaway Essential listening for...
by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 13, 2012 | Podcast
In an extended City Talk Podcast, the Neil is joined by Gareth Roberts, Mike Nevin and Kristian Walsh as they look back at a the Blackburn game and remember what 3 points feel like before having a chat about Mike’s book, before looking forward to the small...
by Paul Rogers | Apr 13, 2012 | Footie
ROBBIE FOWLER, Bill Shankly, Rhys Jones, Gary Ablett and the Hillsborough 96 all get namechecked in a new hip-hop song released by LFC and local rapper Jamie Broad ahead of Saturday’s semi-final. Twenty eight years ago, Liverpool and Everton met in the League Cup...
by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 13, 2012 | Footie
by Gary Shaw The apparent disintegration of Liverpool’s 2011/12 season and the club’s seemingly rapid and dramatic shift from ‘top four contender’ to ‘just a cup team’ has been vociferously and bathetically debated in pubs, TV studios and internet forums for the past...
by John Gibbons | Apr 12, 2012 | Footie
LIVERPOOL band The Sound of Guns released their second album ‘Angels and Enemies’ in March and are currently embarking on a European tour. Sparing no expense, The Anfield Wrap flew John Gibbons out to Switzerland to have a drink with drummer Si Finley and see how it...
by Jay McKenna | Apr 12, 2012 | Footie
I WILL make it clear – before anyone points it out – that I wasn’t at Hillsborough that day. I was two years old. I didn’t lose any family members, or people who I knew. But I do know those who lost loved ones, who experienced that day, and who still...
by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 12, 2012 | Footie
By Neil Scott SERIOUSLY, thirty five years is a long time to hold a grudge. It’s longer than it takes to resolve most wars, to overthrow most corrupt political systems and to win a quintet of shiny European Cups. Clearly, we’re not just talking about some minor...
