by Steve Graves | Sep 20, 2012 | Footie
LIKE many people, I really enjoyed Channel Four News chief correspondent Alex Thomson’s doorstepping of Kelvin MacKenzie. It made for great TV. Who could fail to be amused by the sight of a man once among the most powerful in Fleet Street reduced to cowering in his...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 19, 2012 | Podcast
In an exclusive interview with The Anfield Wrap, Rafa Benitez speaks to Neil Atkinson, Dan Garb, Tony Evans and Rory Smith about his book, his football idealogy, his ideas on youth football and just why he picked that starting line up in Athens. Direct link to...
by Tony Barrett | Sep 19, 2012 | Footie
“The fans were superb. They helped the police as much as anything else. It was their friends, their supporters and their football club that was in trouble and they did everything they could and more,” Kenny Dalglish “The actions of the Liverpool fans that day were...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 17, 2012 | Podcast
Neil, Rob, Mike and Steve are joined by Lewis Cubbin and United We Stand contributor Stephen Armstrong as they pore over the weekend performance, the media narrative on the HIP enquiry and the reaction to chanting at the United game. Direct link to PODCAST: POINTS TO...
by Tony Evans | Sep 17, 2012 | Footie
ON Sunday, Manchester United go to Anfield for Liverpool’s first home game since the Hillsborough Independent Panel’s devastating findings. The report shocked a Prime Minister and most of the nation. It looks like one of those unhappy quirks of fate that the Kop’s...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 16, 2012 | Footie
By Hugh O’Connell PRAISING politicians is not popular, nor is it common. In these parts, praising Tory politicians even less so. But in a week of extraordinary events some extraordinary praise of some politicians is as necessary as Prime Minister David Cameron’s...
by Gareth Roberts | Sep 15, 2012 | Footie
SORRY. Everyone is sorry. David Cameron is sorry. Kelvin Mackenzie is sorry. David Bernstein is sorry. Boris Johnson is sorry. Sir (how?) Norman Bettison is sorry. Sir (how?) Irvine Patnick is sorry. Dominic Mohan is sorry. Sheffield Wednesday are sorry. The Sheffield...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 14, 2012 | Podcast
Neil is joined by Mike Girling, Steve Graves and Mike Nevin as they pull apart what has been a historic week for the city. Music this week from Rachael Wright, Silent Sleep and a very special track from the Irish Sea Sessions group to close the show. ...
by Tony Evans | Sep 14, 2012 | Footie
IT was the day Liverpool got its reputation back. For so long, the place had been sniggered at and derided, tagged “self-pity city” and supposedly populated by whingeing, conspiracy theorists. Yesterday it turned out that Liverpool was right all along. Attitudes had...
by Tony Barrett | Sep 14, 2012 | Footie
IT has taken the Football Association more than 23 years to apologise for its role in the Hillsborough disaster and when an expression of regret was finally made yesterday it still carried the corporate air of an organisation desperately trying to cover its own back....
