by Neil Atkinson | Aug 16, 2013 | Footie
AND now we move to our fourth offering after yesterday’s three. Mikes Nevin and Girling are separated by Stephen Goldsmith on Sunderland and Iain McIntosh on Southend. Mike Nevin What do Liverpool still need to do before the window closes? Sign...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 15, 2013 | Footie
WE are already eight in. Now for another four. Trevor Downey, me, Juliet Jacques on Norwich and John Gibbons. Trevor Downey What do Liverpool still need to do before the window closes? Buy a first-team-ready left back and a defensive midfielder. Squad...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 15, 2013 | Footie
SO I’ve asked a few what they reckon will go on this season along with a few other questions to help take temperatures. We’ll put these on over the next couple of days. Here are the first four – Dave Sutton, Karl Coppack, Daniel Fitzsimmons and Steve...
by Gareth Roberts | Aug 13, 2013 | Footie
THREE years ago this month, Martin Broughton, Chelsea season ticket holder and then chairman of Liverpool Football Club, was reportedly assessing six bidders’ credentials to take over from Tom Hicks and George Gillett, the carpetbaggers who in just three years as...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 7, 2013 | Footie
IT makes no odds. I understand why people think it does. I understand the recourse to emotion. That’s the aim. It makes no odds. When he ran out on Saturday Suarez may have been surprised by the warmth of the response. I suspect his agent was. I suspect it made him...
by James Dutton | Jul 29, 2013 | Footie
IT truly is the end of an era. The last of Rafa’s Spanish conquistadors has set sail and departed these shores. Undeniably clouded by the ongoing farce surrounding Luis Suarez, the departure of the greatest last guardian of Liverpool’s defence for a generation has...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jun 23, 2013 | Footie
MIKE NEVIN’S glorious personal ‘tribute’ to Ferguson from issue 20 of Well Red Magazine SO our old nemesis from Manchester has called it a day. After 27 tortuous years for Liverpool fans, Alex Ferguson has retired from football management. With 13...
by The Anfield Wrap | May 30, 2013 | Footie
SO that was Year 1. How was it for you? To assess any season you have to look at the surrounding context. What are we judging progress as? A better points total? Better play? Trophies? Qualification? What is the background of that progress? Where are we going and from...
by The Anfield Wrap | May 29, 2013 | Featured Writing, Footie, Heysel, Hillsborough
by Oliver Kay NOW that the lies, the smears and cruel myths about the Hillsborough disaster have been exposed once and for all, those who clung to them out of warped tribalism have but one straw left to clutch. “What about justice for Heysel?”, they plead. “What about...
by James Dutton | May 14, 2013 | Footie
THOSE of you familiar with my work on The Anfield Wrap so far, and there probably aren’t many of you out there, might recollect my most recent piece on Liverpool Football Club’s moribund experience with the dreaded black away kit. Now I’m probably too early on in my...
