by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 28, 2017 | Podcast, TAW Player
Hello darkness my old friend. Liverpool were dire at Leicester and the panel on The Anfield Wrap aren’t holding back. Joel Richards, Melissa Reddy and John Gibbons were all at the King Power Stadium and saw how awful The Reds really were. How bad was that? Every...
by Paul Cope | Feb 28, 2017 | Footie
“IF he was not good and a few others were not good then we could not win against Tottenham.” The words of Jürgen Klopp during his pre-match press conference for the Leicester game when answering a question about Gini Wijnaldum and how well he had played against Spurs....
by Neil Atkinson | Feb 28, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
THE issue isn’t losing. The issue is acquiescing to being dreadful. To not seeing any way to stop it. To being so tame. The issue isn’t even going 3-0 down. Well, it is a bit, but the issue is getting one back and never, ever, ever, ever, ever looking like...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 27, 2017 | Footie
TAW contributors with talking points straight from the ground after Liverpool’s 3-1 defeat to Leicester City. More Mignolet Mistakes Simon Mignolet do much wrong tonight? Backed off for the first? @jsexton24 Thought Mignolet was one of the few to emerge with...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 27, 2017 | Podcast, Post-Match Show, TAW Player
Neil Atkinson hosts as Steve Graves and Adam Melia try to understand why The Reds were so abject against Leicester City. There are no excuses for a performance that poor and there have been no excuses for Liverpool’s record against poorer sides for a while. No...
by Andy Heaton | Feb 27, 2017 | Footie
HORRIBLY, painfully predictable, absolutely fucking shambolic. Again. If this is the reality then what’s the point? Simon Mignolet: 3 Two decent stops at 0-0, the fact he had to make two stops against the absolute shite show that are Leicester shows how fucking...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 27, 2017 | Podcast, TAW Player
The Coach Home this week sees Neil Atkinson, Mo Stewart and John Gibbons dealing only with winners. Crystal Palace won for the first time in ages and Robbie Scotcher is absolutely buzzing. It was the win they needed. West Brom has an overjoyed Pulis and Dan Hewitt...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 27, 2017 | Podcast, TAW Player, Wildcards
Gareth Roberts hosts Philippa Smallwood, Neil Atkinson, John Gibbons, Mike Girling and Joel Richards as they go through the four categories and react to the listeners votes. Up for debate on this edition of Wildcards: Melwood/Kirkby A refereeing decision you would...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 24, 2017 | Podcast, TAW Player
Neil Atkinson is joined for a rare live Citytalk by Joe Watson, Mo Stewart and Joel Richards to talk about Liverpool’s visit to Leicester and The Foxes club sacking their manager late on Thursday evening. Neil is later joined by Sean Rogers to discuss the matter...
by Rob Gutmann | Feb 24, 2017 | Footie
CLAUDIO Ranieri was sacked last night (at the time of writing). It is too obvious to state that this represents a disappointing state of affairs. That the figure head for as great an achievement as there has been in British sport should find that his team no longer...