“FOOTBALL is fantastic when it’s a morning match…” (Frank Sidebottom, “Football Is Really Fantastic” – 1983) I’ve quoted the late great Chris Sievey (aka Frank Sidebottom) before for this column. I love Chris/Frank, a man out of and ahead of his time, but he’s...
YOU can’t live with Liverpool. You think you can. You set up and do something interesting. You give the full backs room and time. You have four lads in centre mid and the centre forwards shield Fabinho. You’ve given it some thought. You aren’t a mug....
IT’S good to have it all back. Good to be in the midst of it all once again. After the ever-shorter post-season breather, last Friday, a familiar pilgrimage was made. To Anfield. To Liverpool FC. The pub was full of smiles. The Kop was full of flags. And just before...
I’M not sure where Jermaine Jenas has been for the past year. Joe Cole – on the other hand – I can hazard a guess at snazzy tailors which specializes in maroon-tinted suits, or maybe a gastro pub on the West End, telling people how “The Chels” ruled...
ONE of the best things about football is the way it produces the most unlikely of heroes. From Jerzy Dudek in Istanbul to Divock Origi in Madrid, it’s nigh on impossible to predict who will seize the glory. Sometimes the stories it conjures up are so...
The Champions of Europe are heading back to Istanbul to face Chelsea in the UEFA Super Cup, but how up for the cup are we feeling? John Gibbons is joined by Gareth Roberts, Lizzi Doyle, Kev Walsh and Josh Sexton to preview Wednesday night’s game and guess what...
WE are the champions, the champions of Europe. Jürgen Klopp said he wanted us to forget about Madrid after pre season. Well soz abar us. Anfield wanted a party and the players wanted to entertain. A celebration of brilliance and excellence was what we were served up...
IT’S time. When football is handed back to us. When it becomes ours once more. When what happens in the ground tops anything else. How it should be. The close season has always been barren by definition; a period pre-internet (stick with it, kids) that once featured...
I’VE always felt that the first game of a new season is the most special. I’ll bore on about it at the beginning of each new campaign. The first fixture is the one to be most eagerly anticipated. There’s something timelessly pure about the moment just before the first...
HOW was your break? Did you have one? Go anywhere nice? There are people who can’t have footballing holidays. For them there’s no respite once the final ball of the season has been kicked or, in our case, the trophy has been lifted to an expectant crowd one more time...
Can Resurgent Reds Maintain Momentum?: TAW Midweek Extra
The Anfield Wrap’s midweek podcast looking back at the Liverpool’s thumping victory over Galatasaray in the second leg of their Champions League Round of 16 tie at Anfield to progress to the quarter finals of The Champions League.
John Gibbons is joined by Andy Heaton, Adam Smith and Joel Penny.
Also in the show, John talks to Matt Parish, CEO of The LFC Foundation, about next weekends Legends game at Anfield as the Liverpool Legends take on Jurgen Klopp’s Borussia Dortmund.
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