by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 22, 2016 | Footie
HOW bright the sky looks. How green the grass. Smell that warming spring air. I think I might go outside and sit on my stoop and drink some lemonade. The Reds are coming up the hill boys. Like a threshing machine sything through the corn fields of the premier league....
by Phil Blundell | Apr 20, 2016 | Footie
I’VE watched last Thursday about 20 times. The Lov leaping like a salmon out of the Kupa river and sending the Kop into raptures. Not a clue if they even have salmon in Croatia but you get my point: He jumped dead high and he’s Croatian. I’m struggling to figure...
by David Segar | Apr 13, 2016 | Footie
THURSDAY brings with it Liverpool’s biggest European game since the 2010 UEFA Cup semi-final with Atletico Madrid. Little did we know when Diego Forlan was denying us the chance to batter Roy Hodgson’s Fulham in the final that it would be the last time the Reds would...
by John Gibbons | Apr 12, 2016 | Footie
DORTMUND holds a special place in my heart, as I’m sure it does for many others around my age. My first European final in 2001, the club’s first since 1985, and a crazy day and night where it lashed down and there were an improbable number of goals...
by Rob Gutmann | Apr 9, 2016 | Footie
STOKE at home. Nothing to play for. Only Stoke at home. Nothing to play for. Might as well not go. When I was 12, I went to my first match at Anfield. It was a League Cup game on a midweek night against Portsmouth. They were then, as now, mired somewhere in football’s...
by Michael Nevin | Apr 7, 2016 | Footie
WELL, they’re all away. The Anfield Wrap crew have decamped to Dortmund, via Amsterdam, on what Neil Atkinson described to me the other day as a “work experiment”. No further insight was proffered, leaving me to ponder if said experiment was to see if anyone can get...
by Simon Hughes | Apr 6, 2016 | Footie
IN the days after Johan Cruyff’s death, many of the obituaries were decorated with some of his most famous quotes about football. “Choose the best player for every position, and you’ll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong ones,” he said. “In my teams, the...
by Karl Coppack | Apr 4, 2016 | Footie
MARILYN Monroe once said: “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” I’m not sure if she employed second sight and an interest in the 2015-16 league season, but her words do seem to...
by Melissa Reddy | Mar 31, 2016 | Footie
STEVEN Gerrard used to have a template text to turn to ahead of every summer. Before silly season entered full swing, the former Liverpool captain was instructed to message the club’s priority targets to convince them to join him at Anfield. Often, he felt daft as he...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 31, 2016 | Footie
I WAS as glad as everyone else to see the back of Raheem Sterling last summer, writes CHARLIE CHRISTIAN. After months of distracted performances, shameless attention-seeking and general poor conduct all round, it was time for the club and Sterling to part ways and at...
