by Gareth Roberts | Nov 26, 2012 | Footie
SORRY Chelsea fans, but you really haven’t thought this one through. Singing “Fuck off, Benitez?” Booing your own manager on day one? Way to go. When the stadium announcer read out the attendance at Stamford Bridge and followed it by thanking fans...
by Roy Henderson | Nov 24, 2012 | Footie
SO Xavi Valero has gone and gone to London, taking his merry band of hired coaching guns with him in his wake, with the little matter of one Rafael Benitez Maudes nestling his prodigious footballing cojones in the blue plastic Recaro Chaise Longue of the Chelsea...
by Andy Heaton | Sep 25, 2012 | Footie
ESPN has acquired multimedia rights to the NextGen Series, a six month European competition featuring the future stars of football, from 24 renowned European clubs. Under the four-year agreement, beginning with the 2012-13 season and running until 2015-16, ESPN has...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 10, 2012 | Footie
RAFAEL Benitez will be at Dublin’s Bord Gáis Energy Theatre for one night only for an intimate evening this September. For this very special event the audience will gain an exclusive insight in to the mind of one of Europe’s most successful and celebrated football...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 7, 2012 | Footie
BRENDAN RODGERS held court in the press room at Melwood on Thursday with representatives from a range of LFC fan sites, blogs, fanzines, podcasts and other ‘non-traditional’ media groups. The full audio of the session is available to download in all the usual places...
by Gareth Roberts | Sep 2, 2012 | Footie
BRENDAN RODGERS couldn’t have made it any clearer. He wanted, expected, and probably demanded that there be additions to Liverpool’s squad on transfer deadline day. Namely, he wanted goalscorers: “I’ve been given as much confidence as I can possibly get that we will...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 25, 2012 | Footie
By Sam Jones WHEN FSG, or NESV as they were at the time, took over Liverpool Football Club it was widely reported that having the funds to build a new stadium was a prerequisite for a new owner. A non negotiable, said Martin Broughton. 2 years later we seem no closer....
by Gareth Roberts | Aug 25, 2012 | Footie
IT’S close to two years since Fenway Sports Group (then New England Sports Ventures) took control of our club but for some they still can’t do a thing right. Keeping a close eye on how they operate is one thing, being uniformly negative about everything they do...
by John Gibbons | Aug 22, 2012 | Footie
LAWRO is, to all extents and purposes, a bit of a divvy There is nothing really wrong with this – some of my best friends are divvies, and we can’t all be as distinguished as your average TAW contributor. Lawro is the fella at the party who is not as funny as he...
by Steve Graves | Aug 17, 2012 | Footie
With just a few sweaty, feverish hours left till the sparkly new Liverpool are unleashed on the football world in a fiesta of passing, movement and ultimate disappointment, the final Anfield Wrap predictions are in. Just three this time, but we were limited for space...
