by Karl Coppack | Mar 19, 2012 | Footie
By Karl Coppack WHEN Guy Mowbray mentioned the Ray Kennedy goal in the 1981 League Cup semi at Man City recently he became a bit muddled, his mind caught between expressing a point and wrapping up the night’s events and inadvertently referred to him as...
by Gareth Roberts | Mar 18, 2012 | Footie
ROB JONES is rightly hailed as one of Graeme Souness’s success stories. Plucked from the obscurity of Fourth Division Crewe, 48 hours after signing for Liverpool in October 1991 the defender from Ellesmere Port was marking Ryan Giggs out of a televised game at...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 16, 2012 | Podcast
IN our first ever CityTalk show recorded at St John’s Beacon aka The Radio City Tower, Neil, Rob, Kristian and Gareth Roberts bask in the afterglow of a win against Everton, eulogise Steven Gerrard and have a look towards Sunday’s fixture against Stoke....
by Steve Graves | Mar 15, 2012 | Footie
Wednesday’s Champions League meeting between Chelsea and Napoli encapsulated everything that’s great about the competition. A clash of styles and cultures, a seesaw dynamic crafted by the two-legged system and some technically superb goals. Floodlit theatre of the...
by Roy Henderson | Mar 15, 2012 | Footie
(Before you start, know this – the article is LONG, and probably quite dull if you’re not interested in the business side of the club, or worried about its long-term strategy.) — On 27 January 2011, John Henry and Tom Werner penned a lengthy reply to...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 15, 2012 | Footie
TAW has learned that the BBC have seen confidential documents that reveal Margaret Thatcher was informed that a senior Merseyside police officer blamed “drunken Liverpool fans” for causing the disaster. The briefings, written in the immediate aftermath of...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 13, 2012 | Footie
by Ben McCausland Best thing Wembley the other week? Without question, the best sight at Wembley last week was the fantastically home-made “JAY SPEARING FTM” flag. Moving away from the vast, shiny, vinyl flags with 3 long paragraphs, part written in Latin, this...
by Neil Atkinson | Mar 12, 2012 | Footie
THE SUPPORTER arrested for alleged racial abuse directed at Oldham’s Tom Adeyemi won’t be charged, it has been confirmed today. I went to Elland Road in the immediate aftermath of Fowler being sold to Leeds United by Gerard Houllier. First game there, a headcase sits...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 12, 2012 | Podcast
Neil, Rob, Mike, Andy and Kris are joined by Mike Nevin, Lisa Southern, Jonathan Northcroft of The Sunday Times and one of Liverpool’s favourite sons, the Daily Mirror’s Brian Reade as they deconstruct the Sunderland debacle and ‘look forward’...
by Kristian Walsh | Mar 8, 2012 | Footie
Athletic Bilbao left the football purists purring with a brilliant away win at you know where tonight. It seemed like a good time to post this… THERE’S nothing better in football than watching a team which typifies the city it represents. The overt...
