by Scot Williams | Feb 21, 2012 | Footie
“LET me tell you a little bit about the role”. Said the German director in the presence of myself and the Italian/American producers. “He is an English aristocrat, goes by the name of Lord Frederick Langham. He lives in a stately home with 27 bedrooms, fourteen and a...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 20, 2012 | Podcast
CHARLIE ADAM’S HOLLYWOOD BALLS As the The Anfield Wrap turns 30, Neil, Rob, Kristian, Andy and Jim are joined by Mike Nevin, New Brighton FC manager Sean Rogers, Peter Hooton, Paul Salt and The Times of London’s very own Tony Evans. The lads chew the fat...
by Steve Graves | Feb 20, 2012 | Footie
I DOUBT I’m alone in feeling not just delight at Liverpool’s comfortable FA Cup win over Brighton, but a certain measure of relief. For the first time in months it felt like the game was free from subtext, that Liverpool’s number 7 was a footballer...
by Stephen Martin | Feb 18, 2012 | Footie
THE 12 or 13, window seat, strange pattern, stranger feel, wet floor, thinking about Tumbles toy shop. Bubble bus stops, reading graffiti swear words, and City Pets, straight in, glowing fish tanks, strange smells, afraid of the Piranha, asking for a tortoise, mum...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 17, 2012 | Footie
BY NEIL SCOTT “It’s not for glory. It’s not for honour. Just something someone said.” [Turquoise Days – Echo and the Bunnymen] AS manifestos go, it’s near perfect. It speaks of mystery, of unease, of ambition thwarted. It hints at a nagging sense of dislocation,...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 17, 2012 | Footie
INDEPENDENT and uncensored, it’s fair to say the The Redmen TV isn’t quite the same as the official Liverpool FC TV channel but its popularity is growing as more and more Reds get on its irreverent and honest style of programming. Paul Machin and Chris Pajak are the...
by Steve Graves | Feb 17, 2012 | Footie
SOME football websites exist purely to create controversy. Shock value is their currency, getting a rise out of a group of fans considered a good day’s work in the minds of their creators and contributors. The Anfield Wrap is emphatically not among them. I’d be...
by Rob Gutmann | Feb 16, 2012 | Footie
IT seems clarification is in order. I suppose I must have subconsciously known it when penning a piece on Suarez and Evra that even going near the subject of Heysel was going to provoke reaction. I decided to go with it, to be brutually honest, not for...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 16, 2012 | Footie
by Kate Forrester LAZY. Incompetent. Biased. Scum. Parasite. As a working journalist, I have been called all of the above at least once (but not all at the same time, usually). And I haven’t really done anything more controversial than sit in magistrates’ court and...
by Karl Coppack | Feb 15, 2012 | Footie
By Karl Coppack ‘Oh, you know, strikes and gutters, ups and downs…’ – The Dude RECENTLY I was talking to a few mates about the rise and demise of LFC over the past few years. We discussed how it’s possible for us to go from dicking both Man United and Madrid in...
