El Niño Perdido

“There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.” — George Carlin TIME, one of life’s only evolving constants, is a funny thing, it will wither you, make you old, it was here before you were born, and...

Sweating sickness – the Lucas injury wait

IT’S the not knowing that kills you. By the time you read this the extent of the injury sustained by Lucas Leiva on Tuesday night may have been confirmed. In the meantime I’ll be mostly feeling sick to the stomach. As the tabloid press would have it, several million...

FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT

by Karl Coppack   THE unwelcome draw for the League Cup brought us back to Stamford Bridge ahead of places like Cardiff and a very tricky potential home tie against Crystal Palace. Good job we dodged that one. Since the opening day of the 2003 season we have...

LFC Greatests – Scottish Players

Great Scot! Our ‘LFC Greatests’ theme which randomly dips into our unique club history has rolled the dice on the finest Scottish footballers to grace our club. You tend to forget how many there’ve been; the Liverbird and the flower of Scotland have become...

GIG OF THE WEEK – JUSTICE TONIGHT TOUR

THIS week’s gig of the week is actually a tour, or, as Pete Wylie is calling it, “the only tour that matters”. The ‘Justice Tonight’ tour comes off the back of a very successful one-off gig at the Olympia which jointly benefitted the Hillsborough Justice Campaign and...

The Anfield Wrap – Episode Eighteen

The Anfield Wrap: A Fistful   Starring Neil Atkinson, Jim Boardman, Andy Heaton, Ian Maloney, Rob Gutmann, Mike Girling, Kristian Walsh, Phil Blundell, Alexander Koschier, Steve Graves and Gary Murphy.   The lads mull over Liverpool’s draw with...

THE BIG SIX TAX

By Phil Blundell   AS someone who is a regular in away grounds, I’m quite frankly sick of being exploited by other Premier League teams simply because I support a traditionally big, successful club. Not long ago against West Bromwich Albion we were charged an...

The Anfield Wrap – Episode Seventeen

Neil and his hangover were this week joined this week by Kristian Walsh, Dave Rawcliffe, Rob Gutmann, Mike Girling, Jim Boardman, The Echo’s Neil Jones and making his TAW debut, The Times’ Tony Barrett. Chelsea deconstructed, Maxi knitting well,...