by James Dutton | Mar 23, 2013 | Footie
By James Dutton TOWARDS the end of the ‘Filthy Submission’ podcast, and when the hand-wringing over Liverpool’s latest crazy away defeat had been done and dusted, the conversation took a lighter turn. The 1987-88 season was mooted as possessing the best set of kits in...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 22, 2013 | Footie
By Mike Nevin MICHAEL OWEN’S announcement this week of his retirement from professional football at the age of 33, brought in equal measure, howls of derision and hoots of laughter from the same Liverpool supporters who once proclaimed a wonder kid of half that age....
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 2, 2013 | Footie
By Ben Feltham IT’S funny, but it seems that for the entirety of Rodgers reign Liverpool fans have been searching the Anfield pitch, or TV screens or wherever for an answer to this almost existential question – is this progress? It’s an earnest question, and the...
by Karl Coppack | Feb 21, 2013 | Footie
By Karl Coppack IT’S the day of the home leg against Zenit, six months into the season and I’m still not sure. I’ve sat through 5-0 wins, I’ve seen us be an aberration of a back pass and a walkabout goalkeeper away from beating the League...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 7, 2013 | Footie
By NEIL SCOTT PERHAPS more than any other sport, football is about individual moments. Those snapshots of genius, of madness, of calamity or despair which, taken in isolation, act as a kind of symbolic shorthand for a particular match, a season, sometimes even a...
by Gareth Roberts | Feb 3, 2013 | Footie
FIFTY Shades of Grey isn’t just a glorified porno to reawaken the lost libido of a million bored housewives – it’s also an accurate phrase for what has taken place at Anfield this season. Far too many assessments of Liverpool’s progress or lack...
by James Dutton | Feb 1, 2013 | Footie
YOU can’t fail to get excited by the signing of a 20-year old Brazilian prodigy wearing the iconic no. 10. Some will feel that it is inevitably all downhill from here for Philippe Coutinho; every first touch will be forensically examined, every impartial observer will...
by Karl Coppack | Jan 9, 2013 | Footie
By Karl Coppack THE Christmas programme marks a vital period in any season. Those three or four games can transform a mid table team to one pushing for the European places or shove another towards the relegation places. It takes just days for a pretty good start to...
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...