IN April 1990, Liverpool beat QPR 2-1 at Anfield. A John Barnes penalty won the game and, by extension, the league with two games to go to finally see off the threat of – yes – Aston Villa. All wrapped up to the extent that Kenny brought himself off the bench for the...
EVERY so often, in different walks of life, an individual comes round who turns out to define a generation. In football, a player might go down as one of the all-time greats to play the sport. Steven Gerrard is certainly one of those figures, yet his is a legacy which...
ANFIELD hosted an international Rugby League match on Sunday between Australia and New Zealand. The Aussies won the game 34-8. While the action unfolded, anyone legally old enough among the 40,042 crowd could sip from a beer while sitting in their seat if they so...
I DON’T like it when players leave. I don’t mean any specific player either. I mean just any player. It saddens me that something hasn’t worked out and whoever it is lacked what we need to win things. Well, okay that may not be completely honest – I did breathe a sigh...
THERE is a select group of Reds players past and present that have managed to score on their first appearance for the club. Titi Camara is one of the more memorable of recent times and as it’s his birthday today, we thought we’d celebrate by looking at 12...
HEADS are falling off. Not at a title challenge or anything that actually makes real sense. Oh no, we’re sat top of the league, scoring goals for fun and things look great but there’s a common thread that the world is ending and that Philippe Coutinho has already...
JÜRGEN KLOPP has given Liverpool gravitas, reach and respectability. In one fell swoop, his appointment as manager made the football world take notice. It was a statement that Liverpool meant business again — no longer a project and instead aiming to be a...
IT exists to win trophies. A bastion of invincibility, the league its bread and butter. A holy trinity made up of the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors? They don’t come into it. We’re part of a family. People who can hold our heads up high and say,...
IT’S been just over two years since a servile Anfield blew kisses at the visiting Real Madrid before proceeding to roll over and have their belly tickled as Liverpool played grateful host to their regal guests. Madrid left a tepid L4 that night three goals to...
TODAY had the sort of feel of an international break in football news terms. A sort of void between the game just gone against Crystal Palace and the focus beginning to switch towards Sunday’s game against Watford. Say what you like about how a lack of European...
The Anfield Wrap’s first live show of the season from our brand new studio where we discuss, among other things, Andoni’s Iraola’s comments about the depth of his Liverpool squad, as well as fresh links to Yankuba Minteh, before looking ahead to the Reds trip to Newcastle on Sunday.
