“IF you are first, you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.” – Bill Shankly During The Anfield Wrap’s series of articles about the most significant games from the last few seasons under Jürgen Klopp, I have tried to select occasions where it felt like...
I RECENTLY said on an Anfield Wrap Review show that the 2017-18 season might be my favourite under Jürgen Klopp. That’s quite the statement given the highs achieved and still to come, but I stand by it. The sweet-spot moment of football support when you know your team...
YOU simply cannot overstate just how good Manchester City were in 2017-18. I struggle to understand how anyone who witnessed that season can try to argue, with a straight face, that the Arsenal ‘Invincibles’ were better, or Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea, or any of Alex...
IT had been a good start to the 2016-17 season. Liverpool were expected to push on in Jurgen Klopp’s first full campaign in charge, and had already won away at Arsenal and Chelsea, got a respectable draw at Tottenham in a game they should have won, and dispatched...
THE blip became a jolt. That morphed into a slump, and could come to be viewed as a full-blown, old-school ‘crisis’ if Liverpool fail to beat both Bournemouth and Atlético in the next five days. Hey, don’t talk like that man. Stay positive, stay grateful. Liverpool,...
THE European Cup is a strange old thing. In its autumn phase it’s more irritation than objective. Then, spring looms, and it blossoms. Our hugely complacent but justified taking of the league title for granted in turn casts the possibilities in the Champions League...
WHAT does the word ‘conspiracy’ mean to you? There was a time in my life where conspiracies usually involved getting lost down some kind of YouTube rabbit hole before realising hours had elapsed and the sun was not far from rising. You’ll probably all have a...
TRUST noun Firm belief in the reliability, truth, or ability of someone or something. JÜRGEN Klopp’s first press conference is timeless. It is a masterpiece that should be framed, the quotes should adorn the walls of museums with the audio played back on a constant...
WELL, I mean, Christmas is a thing, isn’t it? On the one hand, the most wonderful time of the year. On the other hand, is everyone fucking knackered? Emotionally and physically? I mean, I am. And certainly the footballers are. We’ll get to the referee. You...
HAPPY Christmas, pilgrims. Another year and The Reds top of the pile again on the 25th. I make this the fourth time in the past 10 years that this has happened – 2009, 2014, 2018, 2019. They used to say that the team that lead at Christmas always won the title...
How Balanced Is Liverpool’s Squad | The Gutter Transfer Show
Talking through the latest Liverpool transfer rumours and links and asking whether transfer priorities may have shifted due to the return to form of some players who the Reds were previously happy to replace in the Summer.
Rob Gutmann hosts Kieran Molyneux, Joel Penny and Adam Melia.
