by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 28, 2012 | Podcast
A SPECIAL SOUVENIR CUP PULL OUT EDITION Neil, Rob, Mike, Gibbo, Jim, Kris were joined the The Redmen’s Paul Machin and The Farm’s Peter Hooton. All safely back and cured of hangovers, the lads look back at our first trip to the new Wembley, what worked,...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 24, 2012 | Footie
With London calling for our first final in too long, TAW thought it was an ideal chance to showcase some of the banners that have been made up ready for our first trip to Wembley as well as some from our recent history from around the globe as well as a few old...
by Karl Coppack | Feb 24, 2012 | Footie
by Karl Coppack ‘Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, cars, sidewalks, stores. Everywhere. There’s no escape. I’m God’s lonely man’ – Travis Bickle 1976 saw the longest drought in decades, a ladybird invasion and the peak of the...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 23, 2012 | Footie
This is a message from the Hillsborough Justice Campaign. Following consultation with Cardiff fans, the Metropolitan Police and Wembley, we are pleased to issue the following advice in regards to our ‘Don’t Buy The Sun’ posters. There will be 25,000...
by John Gibbons | Feb 22, 2012 | Footie
IF all your mates are off to London this weekend and you’re stuck in Liverpool, you’re probably starting to feel sorry for yourself round about now. Worst yet you might even be a Blue. So let me try and cheer you up by letting you know there is loads of brilliant...
by Scot Williams | Feb 21, 2012 | Footie
“LET me tell you a little bit about the role”. Said the German director in the presence of myself and the Italian/American producers. “He is an English aristocrat, goes by the name of Lord Frederick Langham. He lives in a stately home with 27 bedrooms, fourteen and a...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 20, 2012 | Podcast
CHARLIE ADAM’S HOLLYWOOD BALLS As the The Anfield Wrap turns 30, Neil, Rob, Kristian, Andy and Jim are joined by Mike Nevin, New Brighton FC manager Sean Rogers, Peter Hooton, Paul Salt and The Times of London’s very own Tony Evans. The lads chew the fat...
by Steve Graves | Feb 20, 2012 | Footie
I DOUBT I’m alone in feeling not just delight at Liverpool’s comfortable FA Cup win over Brighton, but a certain measure of relief. For the first time in months it felt like the game was free from subtext, that Liverpool’s number 7 was a footballer...
by Stephen Martin | Feb 18, 2012 | Footie
THE 12 or 13, window seat, strange pattern, stranger feel, wet floor, thinking about Tumbles toy shop. Bubble bus stops, reading graffiti swear words, and City Pets, straight in, glowing fish tanks, strange smells, afraid of the Piranha, asking for a tortoise, mum...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 17, 2012 | Footie
BY NEIL SCOTT “It’s not for glory. It’s not for honour. Just something someone said.” [Turquoise Days – Echo and the Bunnymen] AS manifestos go, it’s near perfect. It speaks of mystery, of unease, of ambition thwarted. It hints at a nagging sense of dislocation,...
