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...
I SAT down to write this and started thinking about how good Spain is. I’ve ended up disappearing for the best part of three hours going off to make a Tortilla Espanola before coming back to do this. I basically reeled off a load of things Spain did really well and...
ALL the focus was on “England”. “England fans”. What the world was witnessing in Marseille was England and England fans. Not men and women, sons and daughters. Not people. England yobs. England thugs. English disease. Dark ages. Let the country...
NORTHERN Ireland? You know us — mainly from the news. Some of our lot across the water used to misbehave quite a bit. Recently though, we’ve toned down the terrorism. Despite the occasional petrol bomb and bickering between actual adults in power over which flag...
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...
DURING the football season itself — when Liverpool FC are my first, last and always — I have zero interest in international football. It is only a needless distraction from the main event. An interloper in a perfectly sufficient festival of red-rooted...
WITH the footie season now over, transfer rumours in full swing and the countdown to Euro 2016 ticking away, we thought the time was right to ask Anfield Wrap contributors and friends what they made of the Liverpool season just gone. With two managers, two cup finals,...
FRIDAY evening sees France v Romania on the telly and the start of the 2016 European Championships. Tournament football is great, isn’t it? I’ve seen people say they think it’s rubbish and that they hated ‘The X World Cup’ because it wasn’t very entertaining. So I...
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...
THIS week marks 29 years since Liverpool paid Watford £900,000 for the services of John Charles Bryan Barnes, a player who proved to be one of the finest ever to pull on the red of our club. The Jamaican-born winger clocked up 407 appearances for Liverpool in 10 years...
Post International Break Liverpool & Villa: The Trends
Examining football’s underlying numbers, looking back at the Villa match, and taking a look at Liverpool’s numbers following international breaks.Neil Atkinson is joined by Josh Williams.
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