by The Anfield Wrap | Jan 10, 2012 | Footie
by Sam Jones 99.5%. A fairly impressive figure, but what is it? Liverpool’s chance conversion rate in the 2011/12 season? The percentage of Paul Scholes’ tackles that were so late that you would have received compensation if he was an airline? The weekly...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jan 9, 2012 | Podcast
Neil Atkinson chairs a lively debate about Suarez, racism and the fact there was actually a decent on-the-pitch performance against Oldham. The cast of Paul Salt, Rob Gutmann, Mike Girling, Kristian Walsh, Peter Hooton and Jim Boardman also look at the Reds’ 3-0...
by Steve Graves | Jan 9, 2012 | Footie
Just before Christmas there was some sad news for the Liverpool music scene when Mick Head’s pre-Christmas gig at the Brink on Parr Street came to an early end, with the Shack frontman taken to hospital. Thankfully it sounds like Mick is on the mend, but the...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jan 4, 2012 | Footie
After a fantastic response to the launch of www.rafabenitez.com, Rafa Benitez is expanding his online presence and now has launched an official twitter account of his website. The site has received widespread acclaim from both fans and professionals and has quickly...
by Tony Evans | Jan 4, 2012 | Footie
“If cups were awarded for cock-ups then you would not be able to move in City’s boardroom” — Francis Lee It was appropriate that Liverpool played Manchester City last night, hours after they attempted to draw a line under the Luis Suárez-Patrice Evra incident. The...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jan 3, 2012 | Footie
by Sam Jones The FA, and their legal representatives will doubtless be relieved that in the aftermath of the release of their written reasons for the outcome they reached following the charges brought against Luis Suarez, that so much time, effort and emotion has been...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jan 3, 2012 | Footie
By Paul Edwards I’ve read hundreds of tweets and blogs about the Suarez verdict and just as many about the 115 pages of reasons published by the Football Association on New Years eve. Really great timing that by the FA it seemed, though it transpires Suarez and...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jan 2, 2012 | Podcast
[THIS WEEKS EDITION FEATURES A FULL AND FRANK DISCUSSION ABOUT THE FA/SUAREZ CHARGE DOCUMENTATION, DO NOT DOWNLOAD IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED BY FOUL LANGUAGE OR NORMALLY LISTEN TO THE PODCAST IN FRONT OF YOUNG CHILDREN OR YOUR NAN] Neil Atkinson, Steve Graves, Rob...
by Steve Graves | Jan 1, 2012 | Footie
IT became something of a ritual in our house. At least once evening a week the phone would ring. My mum, ever-patient despite the demands of a full-time job and a socially-awkward six-year-old to keep in fish fingers and Gola shellsuits, would answer as usual. “No,...
by Scot Williams | Dec 31, 2011 | Footie
I’D LIKE you to attempt something for me. I’d like it if you would, just for one brief moment, try to imagine what it must feel like to be a ‘Rolling Stone’. Now by that I don’t mean a pebble on a hill, I mean a ‘Stone’ Stone, a Rock Star Stone! Try to envisage, if...
