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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
FROM here it will be a major surprise if the Premier League does not have a new winner in May. Meanwhile, one of the founding members — a club that since 1992 has not been relegated — will go down in the most humiliating manner possible. Soon, Manchester...
I HAD every intention of using this column to write about our current songbook this weekend; a critical analysis of the songs that are in heavy rotation and a reflection on the impact they are having on the atmosphere in the ground. There was going to be a big section...
Kieran Molyneux is joined by Neil Atkinson and John Gibbons to go through their favourite images of Mo Salah over the course of his time at Liverpool ahead of his final game in a red shirt this weekend.
Also in the show, Neil chats to England International Issy Wong about the upcoming UK T20 World Cup, you can get tickets for the tournament here
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