by Simon Hughes | Sep 30, 2015 | Footie
NAME-DROPPING time: I interviewed Jamie Carragher last week for a new project I’m working on. More about that next year, in case you’re interested. He was considering Istanbul and 2005. A decade later, he still can’t really comprehend how it all happened. Even with...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 23, 2015 | Footie
WITH Liverpool in Europa League action last week and League Cup this, it offers the club the chance to blood some of the players that have emerged from The Academy. But is that a production line that is proving successful enough? That’s just one of the topics...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 22, 2015 | Footie
ALRIGHT then — part two of all this. Everyone’s talking about Brendan Rodgers and his Liverpool future so we’ve asked our writers and contributors to nail their opinion on the manager to the mast. This is part two of a feature where we ask: should...
by Michael Nevin | Sep 18, 2015 | Footie
AMID the prevailing, inexhaustible rage surrounding Liverpool’s patchy start to the season, I’ve seen the current crop of players described as the “worst Liverpool team in 50 years”. We’re all aware of how Twitter condenses the fume, but the same disparaging comments...
by Phil Blundell | Sep 17, 2015 | Footie
THREE at the back. It’s not something that’s particularly popular in football now is it? It’s very 1990s, writes PHIL BLUNDELL. Roy Evans was a big fan of it — it nearly won us a title in the mid 90s and England had a crack at it at Euro 96 and the 1998 World...
by Neil Atkinson | Sep 16, 2015 | Footie
BORDEAUX. Just arrived that bit too early for me this autumn. Can’t justify this Thursday to be in amongst the vineyards. Were we playing it when we go to Kazan, well that could be quite different. Means it’ll be the telly for me watching this, though...
by Simon Hughes | Sep 16, 2015 | Footie
I WATCHED with amusement and frustration as Manchester City’s players, having been beaten by Juventus, avoided speaking to the media in the Etihad Stadium last night. All of the classic tricks were performed. Samir Nasri, refusing to make eye contact, nuzzled his...
by Gareth Roberts | Sep 14, 2015 | Footie
THE sports pages of today’s newspapers don’t make for a great read for Brendan Rodgers. From tactical criticisms to the make-up of a squad that is of the manager’s making, from a defence that isn’t stopping goals and an attack that isn’t scoring them, the...
by Michael Nevin | Sep 11, 2015 | Footie
TO this day, the most piercing single roar I’ve heard at a football match came when Frank Stapleton sent the Stretford End into raptures with a 52nd-minute winner against Liverpool in September 1983. It was my first visit to Old Trafford and is a memory I always...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 6, 2015 | Footie
FANS who believe in the transfer committee versus Brendan Rodgers recruitment schism tend to use that narrative as yet more evidence of Rodgers’ failures, especially when it comes to judging a player, writes PAUL LITTLE. But if you are of that mind, could I suggest...
