by Phil Greene | Sep 26, 2017 | Footie
FOOTBALL is a bit mad, isn’t it? Essentially, it’s 90 minutes of chaos and luck which is decided one way or another by a handful of defining moments. Whether a team wins, loses or draws comes down to their number 10 curling in a freekick, three players keeping their...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 26, 2017 | Podcast, TAW Player, The Coach Home
Three teams with reasons to be cheerful on this week’s Coach Home. First up Bradley Hayden talks about a Watford side which looks more than strong enough to challenge for seventh this season so far bar one blip against Manchester City. Alan Wares is delighted...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 25, 2017 | Podcast, TAW Player, Under The Lights
As Liverpool land in Russia for tomorrow’s Champions League match with Spartak Moscow, John Gibbons is joined by Paul Senior, Andy Heaton and Gareth Roberts to look ahead to the game. Gareth also speaks to Sasha Goryunov, a Red, a Russian, and a writer and...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 25, 2017 | Podcast, TAW Player, The Review
The manager should be overjoyed by that performance against Leicester City and that of his substitutes and it is that which Sean Rogers and Paul Cope find themselves also delighted. Why did it go so well for the manager? There was a shift in attitude and approach from...
by Joel Rabinowitz | Sep 25, 2017 | Footie
THERE were numerous positives to take from Liverpool’s 3-2 victory against Leicester City. It was an utterly chaotic encounter which put an end to a fairly grim couple of weeks for Jürgen Klopp’s side. Defensive concerns remain, of course, but the sense of relief when...
by Rob Gutmann | Sep 25, 2017 | Footie
WORD is that Spartak Moscow are a bit rubbish. Champions of all Russia after 16 years of winning bugger all, the mardy Muscovites have celebrated their Premier League homecoming by turning to jelly. They aren’t so much defending their crown as pawning it to pay...
by Ben Johnson | Sep 25, 2017 | Footie
FOOTBALL has a way, every now and again, of conjuring up a defining match out of an otherwise routine game. A rhetoric builds, a pressure is exerted and all of a sudden, a precipice is presented with a couple of obvious options. Take your chance, leap into the unknown...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 24, 2017 | Podcast, TAW Player
Everyone is still a bit giddy after Liverpool’s fantastic 2-3 win over Leicester full of fight and character and no little quality. The Anfield Wrap’s free show gets into all aspects of the game. There is an elongated discussion about Simon Mignolet, how...
by Neil Atkinson | Sep 23, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
THAT. The Lads. They are The Lads. Getting to be The Lads. It’s something that happens to a football team, something that happens to any decent enterprise, ignore the gendered language or anything else you like, you’ve knocked round here long enough and...
by Andy Heaton | Sep 23, 2017 | Footie
I’M hoping by the time I get to the end of this that I’m feeling a little better, that you, dear reader can be my therapy because I’m not going to lie my current state is one of absolute discombobulation. The Reds have won their first game away from home in the league...
