STICK OR TWIST? A LESSON FROM HISTORY

THERE’s a lot of gleeful handrubbing and told-you-sos flying around at the moment. Journalists that said Kenny Dalglish should never have been given a second chance are nodding sagely and grinning with delight…even the one who wanted Jamie Carragher to get...

ROB JONES

ROB JONES is rightly hailed as one of Graeme Souness’s success stories. Plucked from the obscurity of Fourth Division Crewe, 48 hours after signing for Liverpool in October 1991 the defender from Ellesmere Port was marking Ryan Giggs out of a televised game at...

THE CHELSEA CHEERLEADERS

Wednesday’s Champions League meeting between Chelsea and Napoli encapsulated everything that’s great about the competition. A clash of styles and cultures, a seesaw dynamic crafted by the two-legged system and some technically superb goals. Floodlit theatre of the...

Basque-ing in the glory

Athletic Bilbao left the football purists purring with a brilliant away win at you know where tonight. It seemed like a good time to post this… THERE’S nothing better in football than watching a team which typifies the city it represents. The overt...

TOGETHER – THE MIRACLE OF APOEL NICOSIA

By Neil Jones There will be a Cypriot team in the last 8 of the Champions League, after APOEL Nicosia recorded a historic penalty shootout victory over French side Lyon. Trailing 1-0 from the first leg, APOEL levelled the tie through the journeyman Brazilian Gustavo...

THE FOURTH PRIZE

by Karl Coppack If you look hard enough there’s a positive in everything. I left the Arsenal game angered, disappointed, frustrated and sickened but as the vinegar of the sheer injustice washed over me I realised that I wouldn’t have to hear Clive Tyldesley...

A RARE POST ABOUT FOOTBALL

By Karl Coppack ‘Oh, you know, strikes and gutters, ups and downs…’ – The Dude RECENTLY I was talking to a few mates about the rise and demise of LFC over the past few years. We discussed how it’s possible for us to go from dicking both Man United and Madrid in...

JOSE ENRIQUE: ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN

MY appearances on the Anfield Wrap podcast have so far been met mostly with radio silence. I like to think I’ve been doing a solidly unobtrusive job, but it might just be that nobody’s much arsed about anything I say. All that changed this week, when a comment I made...