ANDY CARROLL – COMOLLI’S BIGGEST TEST?

Most Liverpool fans agree the coming summer will be our most important since, well, the last one. The break between seasons will be a test of many things and many people at the club, from owners to management to playing staff. It’s inconceivable that there will not be...

The Anfield Wrap – Episode Thirty-Seven

A hungover Neil is joined by Mike Girling, John Gibbons, Steve Graves, Sean Rogers, Jim Boardman, Nick O’Prey, Gareth Roberts and Tim and James from the Tea Street Band to pick over the bones of the Reds’ home draw with Villa and look ahead to the away...

THE LFC LOVES THAT DARE NOT SPEAK THEIR NAME

An affection for a rival club’s player can be a worrying, unsettling feeling. We’re not talking about a dalliance with a lower-league cult hero or an obsession with Napoli’s latest languid heartthrob here. This is riskier – a penchant for a...

The Only True Moneyball Strategy Available

THIS was written in 2010, not long after FSG’s takeover of Liverpool Football Club, but having started writing something new along similar lines, I realised – there’s no point. The point I’m making hasn’t changed one bit. All that’s...

THE ANFIELD WRAP ON CITY TALK #4

IN our fourth jaunt in the City Talk studios, Neil is joined by Mike Girling, Sean Rogers and Andy Heaton as they chew the fat over the week’s events and have a look at how far, if at all, FSG have taken Liverpool and whether they have delivered on thier...

STICK OR TWIST? A LESSON FROM HISTORY

THERE’s a lot of gleeful handrubbing and told-you-sos flying around at the moment. Journalists that said Kenny Dalglish should never have been given a second chance are nodding sagely and grinning with delight…even the one who wanted Jamie Carragher to get...

ANGER IS AN ENERGY

by Karl Coppack IT’S best not to write angry. A settled mind with a clear idea of your argument and intentions is usually the right way to go about things but sometimes you just have to let your passion speak. It’s even more difficult when your anger is mixed...

SO WHAT NOW?

By Mike Nevin LIVERPOOL are bloody awful at the moment. Six defeats in 7 games tell their own story, with, in particular, the displays at Old Trafford, Sunderland, Newcastle and at home to Wigan hard to defend. The spectre of facing a highly-motivated, confident...

The Anfield Wrap – Episode 36

NEIL, Rob and Mike welcome Paul Cope, Mike Nevin, Daniel Fitzsimmons, Nick O’Prey and Sean Rogers into the studio as they pore over another god-awful weekend for the football club. Did anyone really see this coming? How exactly has it gotten this bad? What can...

THE ANFIELD WRAP ON CITY TALK #3

For our 3rd CityTalk show up in St John’s Beacon, Neil is joined yet again by John Gibbo alongside debutants Jim Boardman and Paul Salt as they chat about ‘The Ev’ in ‘The Semi’, have a look at the club, Damien Comolli and Ian Ayre and...