IT felt thrilling, building to this one. It felt like an event. All the urgency was back, the undertow of the journey was suddenly there. This wasn’t just the idea of Liverpool playing and winning. Not the idea of setting a standard. But the idea of making a...
BEFORE the win over Chelsea on Sunday, Jürgen Klopp was asked if new signing Thiago Alcantara would be starting. The German dismissed the idea as laughable. The player had only just arrived from Bayern Munich, who play a completely different system, and he had barely...
IT’S fair to say we all thought we’d have seen a lot more of Rhian Brewster in Liverpool’s first team by now. After joining Liverpool from Chelsea in 2015, the striker was quick to impress. After initially joining the club’s U18 side he was quickly promoted to the U23...
THE most successful teams in football have been underpinned by great captains. Paolo Maldini’s AC Milan, Franz Beckenbauer’s Bayern Munich, Johan Cruyff’s Ajax, Carlos Puyol’s Barcelona and Steven Gerrard’s Liverpool. The list goes on. In each instance, they pieced...
HERE’S to Liverpool, the Champions of England. Here’s to the team that never knows when it’s beaten, that could never accept that it was futile to try and find a way to muscle past an infinitely greater resourced adversary. Here’s to the lads who can never be...
LAST week, The Anfield Wrap opened nominations for our ‘Embodiment of Liverpool FC’ award. This accolade goes to the player or staff member who represents the ideals of the club and performs them at every available opportunity. In short, it’s someone who ‘gets us’ and...
I GUESS that this must be the place. We’ve arrived. Repeatedly it felt like we’d never get here – 2002, 2009, 2014, 2019. Time and time and time again we nearly got here, we were at the door. We were at the door again and everything stopped. The game ceased to...
IT sounds beyond a cliche to categorise supporting Liverpool Football Club as a rollercoaster ride. We seem to all but constantly be at the mercies of the extremities of fate. Our relationship with the team is not a normal one. The average ‘sports fan’ does not go...
‘THESE are unprecedented times.’ Perhaps the most overused phrase during this global pandemic, but it definitely holds merit when it comes to the position Liverpool Football Club are in. At least in my lifetime. The Liverpool teams I’ve known have mostly been nearly...
REMEMBER days of planning trips abroad? Of gambling £90 on flights the day after Liverpool beat Bayern Munich in the Allianz Arena last year because you just never know? Good times, weren’t they? When things such as mere travel abroad now seem difficult to the...
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.
