by Rob Gutmann | May 7, 2016 | Footie
AS he punched the Anfield air on Thursday — again and again – you had that feeling that this was how it was always meant to be. Like it will be from now on. We’ve waited a long time for him. A very long time for him. So long that some of our number will have...
by The Anfield Wrap | May 6, 2016 | Podcast, TAW Player
THE morning after the night before, Neil Atkinson is joined by Sean Rogers and Rob Gutmann to dissect Liverpool’s 3-0 victory against Villarreal in the Europa League semi final. The lads analyse the key performers and the big moments. They discuss...
by David Segar | May 3, 2016 | Footie
TWO years ago I decided to start writing a book. It was to be a work of fiction and would centre around a lowly football club that would defy the odds to win the league title. They would be a team of misfits brought together by an inspirational manager to overcome the...
by John Gibbons | May 3, 2016 | Footie
WITHIN a football club as decorated as Liverpool, some minor achievements will inevitably get overlooked. It is strange, though, how many people have forgotten the last time Liverpool got to a European semi final. It wasn’t that long ago. It is such a forgotten...
by Ian Salmon | May 3, 2016 | Footie
RIGHT. How can I put this in a way so as not to offend or unnerve? Yes. That’s my overdue Prince tribute. Not as spectacular as the weather deciding that it should go all out to fulfil everybody’s Sometimes It Snows In April blizzard-based hopes but there...
by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 27, 2016 | Podcast, TAW Player
FOR a while Aston Villa has loomed over us as a subject. Too much for The Coach Home. Bigger than even their heaviest defeats. Just what has gone wrong at this huge, European Cup winning club that had led to the most pathetic of league campaigns and their first...
by John Gibbons | Apr 27, 2016 | Footie
THIS was a strange one to ‘scout’ as it was hard to decide which game to watch. The easiest of the Spanish side’s recent fixtures to find a full 90 minutes of was the 3-0 defeat to Real Madrid last Wednesday. However, although I watched it, it was...
by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 25, 2016 | Basic, Podcast, TAW Player, What We Call History
WHAT we call history, nineteen eighty one, nineteen eighty two. The world was a very different place. Liverpool was being discussed in the terms of managed decline in cabinet, the polices of monetarism were hitting the country hard and Liverpool were European...
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...
