by John Gibbons | Mar 20, 2016 | Footie
HOW annoying. At half-time we are all laughing and joking and picturing Flanno lifting the Premier League trophy in 2017. At full time we’ve thrown it away, a limp second-half performance that only looked like finishing one way after The Saints equalised. For...
by Martin Fitzgerald | Mar 20, 2016 | Footie
AFTERNOON, everyone. I’ve got loads of thoughts on Southampton v Liverpool but here are five that don’t involve me setting fire to myself. 1) Southampton is so far away it’s basically in the sea. Someone told me my remit here is to convey the...
by Rob Gutmann | Mar 19, 2016 | Footie
Stonehenge Where the dogs bark and the cats meow I will take you there I will show you how – D. St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap 1981 STONEHENGE is on the way to Southampton. Just outside Salisbury. It takes forever to get from Liverpool to Southampton so you look for...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 18, 2016 | Podcast, TAW Player
AFQ this week starts with a question about “the end” and goes from there. It is one of them. Joining Neil Atkinson are Phil Blundell, John Gibbons, Rob Gutmann, Samantha Brocklehurst and Steve Graves. It is all a bit morning after the night before. Want to...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 18, 2016 | Podcast
NEIL ATKINSON, Rob Gutmann and John Gibbons have a lovely big talk about Liverpool beating Manchester United 1-1. All the performances get some lovely talk but especially those of Milner, Clyne, Sakho, Lovren and Origi on this week’s FREE ‘Friday...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 18, 2016 | Podcast, TAW Player
NEIL ATKINSON is joined for a victorious post match ‘The Pink’ by Paul Cope, Sean Neagle and Craig Hannan after the Reds qualified for the quarter finals of the Europa League by overcoming Manchester United 3-1 on aggregate.
by Martin Fitzgerald | Mar 17, 2016 | Footie
EVENING, everyone. Regular readers of this column, all eight of them, will know how exactly how this works by now. But here’s a crash course for newcomers — a football match happens and I have 5 thoughts. Here they are: 1) I spent most of the day watching...
by Neil Atkinson | Mar 17, 2016 | Footie
SHOW them. Show them. Show them the way to go home. They’re tired and they want to go to bed. Cos they’re only half a football team compared to the boys in Red. Oh! Show them… Not quite as straightforward as that. On 42 minutes, Ben Johnson tells me...
by John Gibbons | Mar 17, 2016 | Footie
I’M meant to do player ratings now but I’m not going to. Its irrelevant. It’s always slightly irrelevant, of course, but feels even more so tonight. What score do you give Simon Mignolet? I don’t want to criticise Nathaniel Clyne for being up...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 17, 2016 | Footie
MONDAY, March 17, 1986, Watford v Liverpool – FA Cup 6th Round Replay. “My son Mike and his mate Macca badgered me all weekend about the driving to the replay. The fact that they would have to bunk off school hadn’t even entered their heads! Before I knew...
