THE message from the players off the field is as synchronised as their counter-pressing on it. From Dejan Lovren to Philippe Coutinho, from Lucas to Jordon Ibe, we’ve heard about Jürgen Klopp’s twin policy of belief and work. “If you put that together, the result is a...
IN writing about Bordeaux at home in the Europa League you are writing about Swansea City at home in the Premier League. Because you know, don’t you. You know aspects of the study that shows the impact Europa League games has can be hotly disputed but you also...
“THERE used to be a football club over there,” said departing Tottenham Hotspur manager and newly-crowned UEFA cup winner, Keith Burkinshaw, as he left his job amid standard 1970-80s acrimony with his board of directors in May 1984. It’s a thoroughly...
AT the end of July I wrote an article for this very website on Alberto Moreno and what we could expect from him in the coming season. Most of my theories went out the window when Brendan Rodgers benched him for young Joe Gomez for the first few games of the campaign....
SO we were invited to the launch of Football Manager 2016 at the National Football Museum in Manchester. The museum itself is a disgrace by the way. Wall-to-wall Manchester United with some vague mention of Liverpool winning five European Cups somewhere at the back....
IN a new regular TAW feature we ask: “What if…”. So many things in football hinge on moments, on split-second decisions and on judgement calls, including buying and selling players and appointing certain managers (or not). To kick things off, David...
RUBIN Kazan. What can you say about them that hasn’t been said before? Firstly, how about “it’s close”? No-one is saying that. Perhaps “it’s easy to get to.” No-one is saying that either. Because these things are lies, it isn’t close, it...
MICHAEL T Nevin is away. Words which should strike fear into the heart of hoteliers around the world. Michael T Nevin is away. He is drinking your booze. Swimming in your sea. Wearing your slippers. Instead you’ve got me, Neil Atkinson, writing more about the...
THIRTY-TWO years today, Steve Nicol first rippled the net in the Red, scoring the first of his 46 goals for Liverpool as Joe Fagan’s Reds won 1-0 away at QPR. I first remember taking in his gingery countenance in a January FA Cup game at Anfield in 1984. We were...
WHAT would you like to throw at Jürgen Klopp? The Yokozuna-like weight of expectation at Liverpool? No clean sheets in eight games prior to his arrival? Two anterior cruciate ligament injuries in two days? Not enough training time to translate his ideas? The familiar,...
The Anfield Wrap’s first live show of the season from our brand new studio where we discuss, among other things, Andoni’s Iraola’s comments about the depth of his Liverpool squad, as well as fresh links to Yankuba Minteh, before looking ahead to the Reds trip to Newcastle on Sunday.
