by The Anfield Wrap | Oct 10, 2011 | Podcast
In Istanbul, we won it five times. Host Neil Atkinson chairs the usual rabble: Rob Gutmann, Mike Girling, Kristian Walsh, Jim Boardman, Simon Hughes and, fresh from signing on, the unemployed Rory Smith. In addition, European Cup winning manager and Liverpool legend...
by Rob Gutmann | Oct 6, 2011 | Footie
I FINALLY got the hang of the Guardian tactical chalkboard thing this week. A gift from The Anfield Wrap’s very own Neil Atkinson. It feels like a game changer. I need never leave the homestead again. This Chalkboard is now the font of all (my) knowledge. One need...
by Steve Graves | Oct 6, 2011 | Footie
IT’S EASY to mock Tony Hibbert. It’s also very, very tempting. But let’s face it – partisan dislike apart, there’s something weirdly admirable about Hibbo. In Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby described the tragedy of the career of Gus Caesar. Gus, Hornby reasoned, had...
by The Anfield Wrap | Oct 3, 2011 | Podcast
Neil Atkinson is joined by Rob Gutmann, Mike Girling, Jim Boardman, Kristian Walsh, Andy Heaton, Brian Durand and Peter Hooton as they chew over the Derby, Carroll, Lucas, Martin Atkinson and the palest man on the planet, Tony Hibbert. Peter Hooton discusses the...
by Roy Henderson | Oct 2, 2011 | Footie
I WAS at the Emirates last Wednesday night. I was sat eating my lunch, and next thing you know one of my workmates has offered me their season ticket for nowt. “Why not?” I asked myself. It’ll be like making a wildlife documentary. So I donned my...
by Ian Maloney | Sep 30, 2011 | Footie
The second in our series of LFC Greatests explores some of the finest defenders ever to grace the game, and we had them. We’ve been blessed with some truly great centre-halves so as you can imagine, getting five down on paper was hard enough but then to rank them was...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 29, 2011 | Footie
by Ben Thornley IT WAS the goal that prompted a hastily released DVD and my even speedier exit. Andrew Johnson, enjoying his finest game in an Everton shirt, pounced on Pepe Reina’s failure to deal with Lee Carsley’s long-range effort to complete the Blues’...
by Steve Graves | Sep 28, 2011 | Footie
A lot of things have been pissing me off lately. Allow me to share. It might help. As I write this I’m veering between a right old rage and a fit of the giggles at Conservative blogknob Iain Dale’s attack on ‘ghastly’ Liverpool. Let’s save that for another day. Lots...
by Steve Graves | Sep 28, 2011 | Footie
LIVERPOOL is a football city. Few could argue with the assertion, but what does that really mean, and how are Liverpool and its people different from, say, Manchester or Newcastle in their relationship with the game? Sociologist John Williams is the author of Red Men,...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 28, 2011 | Footie
By James Owens FIRST of all, a bit of relevant background. I was 16 days short of my fourth birthday on the 15th of April 1989. I live near the town of Stafford, where I was born to a Welsh father who prefers rugby and has no allegiance to any football club, and an...
