MOST of us wanted to play Ajax. That could have been for any number of reasons. Maybe it was because of their name and the European pedigree that saw them net a hat trick of European Cups before we were even on the board. There’s always been a healthy regard between...
IN the anniversary week of Liverpool’s 2019 Champions League final victory, we at The Anfield Wrap are looking at our own experiences from that night. Last year, I detailed the evening I enjoyed in sunny Sussex by the sea with The Brighton Kop. So rather than largely...
In the latest edition of our ‘From The Vault’ series we go back to this time last year, as hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Liverpool to welcome home the Champions of Europe. Neil Atkinson was joined along the parade route by Paul Senior, Adam Smith, Neil...
MEMORIES are such a strange concept. I saw a meme recently which pointed out that sometimes your brain can remember that it’s forgotten something, but can’t actually remember what that thing was. It makes you think, doesn’t it? There are millions of moments throughout...
John Gibbons, Neil Atkinson, Damian Kavanagh and Kev Walsh look back on this day in 2019 when The Reds defeated Tottenham Hotspur to become Champions of Europe for the sixth...
‘BEAT everyone, and once you’ve done that, beat them again’. That’s been the theme of Liverpool’s season so far. After playing the other 19 teams in the Premier League once, Liverpool had beaten 18 of them. There was just one outlier. One stubborn opposition that was...
“IF you are first, you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.” – Bill Shankly During The Anfield Wrap’s series of articles about the most significant games from the last few seasons under Jürgen Klopp, I have tried to select occasions where it felt like...
IN October 2012, a mutual friend introduced Pep Guardiola to Garry Kasparov, arguably the greatest chess player of all time. Guardiola was on a sabbatical between his job at Barcelona and his eventual move to Bayern Munich, and during their first dinner in New York,...
SEEING Liverpool’s rivals thrashing about in the transfer market in the final week of the January window, trying to sign anything that moves, must be heartening for Michael Edwards to see. The Reds’ sporting director had done all his work for the month before it had...
Are Liverpool Sorted Between The Sticks?: TAW Unwrapped
Andy Heaton joins us to break down Liverpool’s goalkeeping situation — from Alisson Becker’s uncertain future to the early doubts around Giorgi Mamardashvili.
Are Liverpool simply going through a difficult transition period, or are we witnessing a wider shift in what clubs now want from modern goalkeepers?
Plus, a look at the next generation coming through at Anfield, including Armin Pesci and Vitezslav Jaros.
Josh Sexton is joined by Andy Heaton, Joel Richards and Ian Salmon.
