“WE hate Nottingham Forest, we hate Everton too. We hate Man United, but Liverpool we love you.” It’s song sang season after season without question. Manchester United and Everton, understandable. But Nottingham Forest? We haven’t played them...
“WE’VE seen a fiesta of goals tonight, but that was the gem; that was the Daddy of them all.” Words exhorted by the late BBC Radio Two commentator, Peter Jones describing the last of three Graeme Souness missiles for an Anfield hat-trick that propelled Liverpool to...
LIVERPOOL FC finished eighth in the Premier League last season. Before then, the club’s last eighth-placed finishes came in 2012 under Kenny Dalglish and in 1994, under the reign of Graeme Souness. And before that? All the way back to 1963 under Bill...
What We Call History is a look, in three or four parts, at a season from Liverpool Football Club’s past. Under the aegis of football folk historian Mike Nevin we remember why Liverpool managers, players or crowds did the things they did, how it felt to be at...
ANOTHER day, another name, another dash to search for YouTube footage. Transfer speculation is the fuel for the internet’s fire, especially in the summer months. And already it feels like Jürgen Klopp has been linked to most of the Bundesliga, writes JOSH...
MIKE NEVIN on an emotional day in Liverpool’s history – and the home-made video that captured the magic. AS the standing Spion Kop embarked on its final voyage, I watched from the same Kemlyn Road quayside when it first sailed into my view in the late 1970s. The...
THE expansion of the European Championships finals has brought us one key thing: the 2pm kick off. The 2pm kick off is the key to it all. How can you not get excited about the 2pm kick off? They’re what make these tournaments for me – games of football while everyone...
WE decided to ask Anfield Wrap contributors what they would do this summer with clubs that weren’t their own; how they would resurrect Aston Villa? How can Arsenal make the next step? Who would you hire and who would you fire? Each got to advise, be Director Of...
The Gutter descends into the depths of tabloid transfer tittle-tattle and website waffle. It can be murky down here, but we look to give you our assessment of what might be the flaming torch of truth in the darkness – and what could just be flaming nonsense. Rob...
IF you were to ask the average fan which nation at this year’s European Championships had the most expensive squad, they probably wouldn’t say Belgium, ALISON MCGOVERN writes. Surely the glittering Spanish, the flamboyant French or the world champions Germany top the...
