by Rob Gutmann | Aug 28, 2011 | Footie
BACK in the dark days, when a Texan tyrant roamed free in the 2nd city of Empire, debt was the new black, and Liverpool football club was hurtling towards a never imagined abyss, its chief financier and ultimate unlikely knight in shining armour, the Royal Bank of...
by Paul Rogers | Aug 28, 2011 | Footie
LAST week when picking 10 of my favourite Scouse tunes, I claimed I couldn’t really get my head around Liverpool fans who don’t like music from Manchester. If it’s a good tune, it’s a good tune – and, as Rakim once famously rapped,...
by Scot Williams | Aug 26, 2011 | Footie
I had to think long and hard about compiling this list. Who would I include? Who would I exclude? Why would I include and exclude them? Regardless of my choices I was always going to leave someone out, piss someone off; and besides, on what grounds would I make my...
by Rob Gutmann | Aug 26, 2011 | Footie
HERE-IN follows a joint review of two south Liverpool food gaffs that have benefited from my custom on a recent frequency that goes beyond decency. Turkish barbecue mecca ‘Elif’ on Lark Lane, and ‘Friends Kebab’ on Smithdown Road have seen far too much of me lately. I...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 26, 2011 | Footie
I went to the Edinburgh Fringe festival. That’s what I did. Three days in the company of my friend Stu. I’m going to tell you about it. But let me make clear, I’m no expert on the old stand-up comedy. I like it when I see it, but I’m not that...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 24, 2011 | Footie
At the time of writing over 120,000 people have signed the Government e-petition asking for full disclosure of all government documents relating to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. This means the case must now legally be discussed in the commons. If you haven’t...
by Steve Graves | Aug 23, 2011 | Footie
DIPPING in to Arsenal’s first-leg win over Udinese last week on Five Live, I was struck by a comment from co-commentator Lee Dixon. Praising some intervention or other on the part of Thomas Vermaelen, Dixon referred to the Belgian as a ‘centre-half’,...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 23, 2011 | Footie
A quick glance at the TV listings for this week in 1984 uncovers a long-forgotten memory that Tom O’Connor actually had his own show on BBC2. This was when Channel 4 soap Brookside was still in its early days with “George determined to track down Tommy...
by Rob Gutmann | Aug 22, 2011 | Footie
WHEN ‘that’ announcement finally came this January, that Kenny was to return as our manager, the joy that greeted the news was something of a strange communal experience for the Liverpool FC supporting fraternity. One sensed that for the younger generation the return...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 22, 2011 | Podcast
HOST Neil Atkinson is this week joined by Chris Brereton, Jay McKenna, Kristian Walsh, Mike Girling, Rob Gutmann, Jim Boardman and Stephen Martin as they discuss the Arsenal performance, what we can take from it and where we can improve. The lads also touch on the...
