by Gareth Roberts | Mar 18, 2012 | Footie
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...
by Steve Graves | Mar 15, 2012 | Footie
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...
by Roy Henderson | Mar 15, 2012 | Footie
(Before you start, know this – the article is LONG, and probably quite dull if you’re not interested in the business side of the club, or worried about its long-term strategy.) — On 27 January 2011, John Henry and Tom Werner penned a lengthy reply to...
by Kristian Walsh | Mar 8, 2012 | Footie
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...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 8, 2012 | Footie
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...
by Karl Coppack | Mar 8, 2012 | Footie
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...
by Karl Coppack | Feb 15, 2012 | Footie
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...
by Steve Graves | Feb 3, 2012 | Footie
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...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jan 19, 2012 | Footie
Dietmar “Didi” Hamann is a complete one-off. The foreigner with a Scouse accent. The German who now plays cricket for his local village team. The overseas footballer turned anglophile who fell deeply in love with the city of Liverpool, its people and its...
by Ian Maloney | Dec 21, 2011 | Footie
And so ensues the hectic Christmas calendar that often throws up some classic matches. We’ve had our thinking caps on and without delving too far back into the archives, we’ve cherry-picked a handful that will live long in our festive memories. Who knows; a thumping...
