by The Anfield Wrap | Jan 3, 2012 | Footie
by Sam Jones The FA, and their legal representatives will doubtless be relieved that in the aftermath of the release of their written reasons for the outcome they reached following the charges brought against Luis Suarez, that so much time, effort and emotion has been...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jan 3, 2012 | Footie
By Paul Edwards I’ve read hundreds of tweets and blogs about the Suarez verdict and just as many about the 115 pages of reasons published by the Football Association on New Years eve. Really great timing that by the FA it seemed, though it transpires Suarez and...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jan 2, 2012 | Podcast
[THIS WEEKS EDITION FEATURES A FULL AND FRANK DISCUSSION ABOUT THE FA/SUAREZ CHARGE DOCUMENTATION, DO NOT DOWNLOAD IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED BY FOUL LANGUAGE OR NORMALLY LISTEN TO THE PODCAST IN FRONT OF YOUNG CHILDREN OR YOUR NAN] Neil Atkinson, Steve Graves, Rob...
by Steve Graves | Jan 1, 2012 | Footie
IT became something of a ritual in our house. At least once evening a week the phone would ring. My mum, ever-patient despite the demands of a full-time job and a socially-awkward six-year-old to keep in fish fingers and Gola shellsuits, would answer as usual. “No,...
by Scot Williams | Dec 31, 2011 | Footie
I’D LIKE you to attempt something for me. I’d like it if you would, just for one brief moment, try to imagine what it must feel like to be a ‘Rolling Stone’. Now by that I don’t mean a pebble on a hill, I mean a ‘Stone’ Stone, a Rock Star Stone! Try to envisage, if...
by Karl Coppack | Dec 29, 2011 | Footie
by Karl Coppack After the QPR game a few weeks ago a few of us headed into town and found ourselves in Slaters.Nothing too macabre about that as it’s an ideal venue for getting a round in for under a tenner for six of us but what struck me was the transformation...
by The Anfield Wrap | Dec 28, 2011 | Podcast
After two disappointing draws against Wigan and Blackburn, host Neil Atkinson chews the Christmas fat with Steve Graves, Rob Guttman, Phil Blundell, Andy Heaton, Gareth Roberts, Dave Mawer, super middleweight Prizefighter champion Rocky Fielding and a belated Kristian...
by The Anfield Wrap | Dec 23, 2011 | Podcast
Neil Atkinson hosts a festive footy quiz featuring Mike Girling, Richard Turvey, Debi McMillan, Rob Gutmann, John Gibbo and Steve Graves. John Furlong is the adjudicator. Who will win the prize, a yule log courtesy of Laura’s Little Bakery? Direct link to The...
by The Anfield Wrap | Dec 22, 2011 | Footie
The lads discuss the absolute fucking abomination of a case against Luis Suarez and the witch-hunt by the FA and certain ‘members’ of Her Majesty’s Press. GET.ON.IT Direct link to Suarez Special Episode podcast download Podcast RSS feed...
by Rory Smith | Dec 22, 2011 | Featured Writing, Footie
Author’s note: This is not about Luis Suarez, or Liverpool, or the Football Association, or the rights and wrongs of the case which led to the striker being suspended for eight games and fined £40,000. Enough has been written on that subject by my peers and superiors...
