by Gareth Roberts | Apr 4, 2012 | Footie
THERE’s a lot of gleeful handrubbing and told-you-sos flying around at the moment. Journalists that said Kenny Dalglish should never have been given a second chance are nodding sagely and grinning with delight…even the one who wanted Jamie Carragher to get...
by Karl Coppack | Apr 3, 2012 | Footie
by Karl Coppack IT’S best not to write angry. A settled mind with a clear idea of your argument and intentions is usually the right way to go about things but sometimes you just have to let your passion speak. It’s even more difficult when your anger is mixed...
by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 3, 2012 | Footie
By Mike Nevin LIVERPOOL are bloody awful at the moment. Six defeats in 7 games tell their own story, with, in particular, the displays at Old Trafford, Sunderland, Newcastle and at home to Wigan hard to defend. The spectre of facing a highly-motivated, confident...
by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 2, 2012 | Podcast
NEIL, Rob and Mike welcome Paul Cope, Mike Nevin, Daniel Fitzsimmons, Nick O’Prey and Sean Rogers into the studio as they pore over another god-awful weekend for the football club. Did anyone really see this coming? How exactly has it gotten this bad? What can...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 30, 2012 | Podcast
For our 3rd CityTalk show up in St John’s Beacon, Neil is joined yet again by John Gibbo alongside debutants Jim Boardman and Paul Salt as they chat about ‘The Ev’ in ‘The Semi’, have a look at the club, Damien Comolli and Ian Ayre and...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 30, 2012 | Footie
By Danielle Warren It’s been a hard few weeks for Liverpool fans. The first half of the season, Liverpool couldn’t buy a win against promoted teams and teams in the lower half of the table. Draws started to become the norm. But as the season has...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 29, 2012 | Footie
A SPRING afternoon walk down Wembley Way awaits those Reds with the right amount of “loyalty” or luck to have an FA Cup semi-final ticket on its way. Wembley Way will once again face an invasion of Liverpool supporters to what we used to call Anfield South, although...
by Karl Coppack | Mar 29, 2012 | Footie
By Karl Coppack YOU can’t beat the summer. Driving round with the windows open, wearing shorts that would put Tony Soprano to shame and enjoying a light breeze coming off the sea with a Cornetto within easy reach. After months of overcast drudgery, of sleeting rain...
by John Gibbons | Mar 29, 2012 | Footie
EP LAUNCH: SATURDAY 31ST MARCH – THE SHIPPING FORECAST IT TAKES a lot to get me inside the walls of The Shipping Forecast, but this show is well worth relaxing an already loose moral code for. It is being used as a double EP launch (which is a gig with a bigger than...
by Steve Graves | Mar 29, 2012 | Footie
The life of the top-level professional footballer today is almost uniquely privileged, yet also strikingly banal. Clubs, sponsors, agents and often players themselves conspire to create a perma-bubble force field around the stars of the game to keep them as detached...
