by Karl Coppack | Dec 19, 2013 | Footie
THIS is not The Old Trafford Wrap. I appreciate that. Yes, I know there’s the ‘who is obsessed with who’ thing going on but this is a special case. It’s not often you get to write about United having a poor season so I’m grasping the nettle while it’s available. I...
by Gareth Roberts | Dec 17, 2013 | Footie
DO we dare to dream now? It’s been a strange season so far. While Liverpool have been racking up results, briefly topping the table and maintaining a top four spot throughout, nagging doubts have remained about whether the attempt to finish in the Champions League...
by Karl Coppack | Dec 11, 2013 | Footie
THE old saying is true. Never meet your heroes. For every Titan from your youth who you’d watch week in, week out and wondered just how they could cope with being in their own skin, there’s the embarrassment of idiotic pundits, casual racists or those possessing...
by The Anfield Wrap | Oct 25, 2013 | Footie
by MIKE NEVIN AS the words “Every other Saturday is my half day off and it’s off to the match I go”, which cascade from the back of the Kop suggest, the practice of attending a football match is embedded with routine. Even if “me old pal Joe” is alone in working the...
by Tony Evans | Oct 25, 2013 | Footie
“WE’RE not English we are Scouse!” It’s the chant that irritates opposing fans more than any other. You can see the bewilderment; the disgust. You can almost see the thought process: “What makes you so different? What makes you special?” Even within Liverpool, there...
by Trevor Downey | Sep 17, 2013 | Footie
WE live in an era of almost crippling political correctness, in which the need to be viewed as non-discriminatory is often paralysing; and yet, when it comes to football and friendship, favouritism is a process of differentiation in which we all engage openly and...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 10, 2013 | Footie
By Phil Blundell “ENGLISH football is a tanker that needs turning. The real challenge for us looking forward is that we’ve gone from 70% English players in the Premier League to 30% and it’s still falling. If that continues, we won’t have a...
by Roy Henderson | Sep 10, 2013 | Footie
IN case you missed it, Greg Dyke, the new FA Chairman, said this in a speech last week. “I’ve been planning this speech almost from the day I was offered the job as FA Chairman and I have read with interest recently people arguing that English football needs a...
by Neil Atkinson | Sep 2, 2013 | Footie
‘WALK ON – The Story of You’ll Never Walk Alone’ is a new film aiming to tell “the story of one song and its extraordinary power – from post war Broadway to LFC’s famous Kop.” We know the song, of course, but we wanted...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 16, 2013 | Footie
A bumper fifth edition (which I might regret if someone else sneaks some in) with offerings from Steve Davies, Gareth Roberts, Amy Lawrence, Rob Gutmann, Kristian Walsh and a very late entry from Catherine Stewart. Apologies for the mad formatting on all these. ...
