by Steve Graves | Mar 7, 2012 | Footie
14 May 1988, Wembley Stadium The final whistle blows. Bobby Gould and Don Howe leap from the bench and embrace. Wimbledon, against all reasonable expectations, have won the FA Cup. In fact it’s a false start (or finish), referee Brian Hill having actually whistled for...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 7, 2012 | Footie
By Paul Grech SUCCESS is often a matter of seeing opportunities where others fail to. Most clubs with top four ambitions deem the League Cup to be a burden. They approach games half heartedly and aren’t too bothered if they get knocked out. Only if they make it...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 5, 2012 | Podcast
NEIL, Kris, Rob, Mike and Jim are joined by Peter Hooton, Paul Salt, Earl Jenkins, Marine manager Kevin Lynch, New Brighton manager Sean Rogers and the Daily Mirror’s Oliver Holt. The lads chat about Arsenal, England, Marine’s floodlight appeal,...
by John Gibbons | Mar 5, 2012 | Footie
Ian Prowse may have been born on the wrong side of the Mersey, but he is a much respected stalwart of the Liverpool music scene through the bands Pele and more recently, Amsterdam. The day before providing the musical backdrop to the BOSS Mag night with Didi Hamann he...
by Gareth Roberts | Feb 29, 2012 | Footie
WE’VE won a cup. I’m happy. Genuinely, I am. It’s good for fans. It’s good for the club. It’s good for Dirk Kuyt and it’s good for Kenny Dalglish. Like I say, happy. But some things about Sunday’s final are still gnawing away...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 28, 2012 | Podcast
A SPECIAL SOUVENIR CUP PULL OUT EDITION Neil, Rob, Mike, Gibbo, Jim, Kris were joined the The Redmen’s Paul Machin and The Farm’s Peter Hooton. All safely back and cured of hangovers, the lads look back at our first trip to the new Wembley, what worked,...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 24, 2012 | Footie
With London calling for our first final in too long, TAW thought it was an ideal chance to showcase some of the banners that have been made up ready for our first trip to Wembley as well as some from our recent history from around the globe as well as a few old...
by Karl Coppack | Feb 24, 2012 | Footie
by Karl Coppack ‘Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, cars, sidewalks, stores. Everywhere. There’s no escape. I’m God’s lonely man’ – Travis Bickle 1976 saw the longest drought in decades, a ladybird invasion and the peak of the...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 23, 2012 | Footie
This is a message from the Hillsborough Justice Campaign. Following consultation with Cardiff fans, the Metropolitan Police and Wembley, we are pleased to issue the following advice in regards to our ‘Don’t Buy The Sun’ posters. There will be 25,000...
by John Gibbons | Feb 22, 2012 | Footie
IF all your mates are off to London this weekend and you’re stuck in Liverpool, you’re probably starting to feel sorry for yourself round about now. Worst yet you might even be a Blue. So let me try and cheer you up by letting you know there is loads of brilliant...
