by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 15, 2011 | Footie
Thirty Years On, Has Anything Changed? While many people reading this won’t have seen the League Trophy at Anfield, a few of us here at TheAnfieldWrap have witnessed the memory several times. This last week has seen a few things that have reminded us of days gone by....
by Gareth Roberts | Aug 14, 2011 | Footie
FOUR consecutive top-four finishes, a genuine title challenge, a League Cup in the trophy cabinet and an FA Cup final. It’s a quartet of campaigns that would have fans of clubs from across the land in raptures. Add an exciting brand of football, arguably some of the...
by Andy Heaton | Aug 14, 2011 | Footie
NOT active in the first phase of play. Going away from goal. Allowing the game to flow. Not wanting to ruin the game as a spectacle. What a load of shite. Referees are there to apply to rules, not to ‘interpret’ them as they see fit, but unfortunately, in...
by Scot Williams | Aug 12, 2011 | Footie, Hillsborough
WHAT I’m about to write is true. In 1996, the night before a big audition, I had a dream. It was a Thursday night I think. THIRTY SEVEN, THIRTY SEVEN, THIRTY SEVEN, THIRTY SEVEN, THIRTY SEVEN, that’s all I could remember of this dream. The Number 37, that’s all it...
by Ian Maloney | Aug 11, 2011 | Footie
PANIC on the streets of London, panic on the streets of Birmingham… and a bit in Manchester, West Bromwich and Liverpool to remix a well-known Smiths intro. But despite the countrywide acts of a desperate minority, I’d say things are looking pretty positive – a mood...
by Steve Graves | Aug 10, 2011 | Footie
GROWING up in North Wales, a trip to Chester of a Saturday afternoon was about as exciting as weeks got – at least weeks without the prospect of a trip to Anfield. Back in the mid 90s I had some favourite haunts which reflected my status as a particularly tragic...
by Rory Smith | Aug 10, 2011 | Footie
ENGLAND is schizophrenic. There is one country on television, an End-of-Days-land, where swarms of black-hooded youths saunter from shop to shop, unchallenged, unabashed, looting, smashing, their destruction wanton and their authority absolute. This is England, broken...
by Gareth Roberts | Aug 10, 2011 | Footie
SOME people have a crystal clear memory to call upon. They can pinpoint, to the day, even the hour, when significant milestones in their life took place. I can’t. So ask me what the first record I bought was and I don’t know. The first I can remember, actual vinyl,...
by Kristian Walsh | Aug 9, 2011 | Footie
SITTING in a room filled with darkness and the quiet crackle of the radio wondering where, when and what the next noise will be. Somewhere in the distance – or it could be closer – a cat screeches. A dash to the window, a quick search, a deep breath out. An...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 8, 2011 | Podcast
WELL, not strictly speaking, as I’m sure some of you have had a listen to the pilot edition that we uploaded last week. The initial intention was to keep it in house, hide it away from the world, but we thought, you know what, sod it, we’ll let it out and...
