Alisson: 7 Made two good saves in about a minute and then didn’t have loads to do. I write the same thing every fucking week, don’t I? Arnold: 8 Back up there with his best. Good defensively, good going forward. Great run for the second, great ball. Is right. Virgil:...
IT’S one of the most soothing sounds in football. The rest is a nervous silence, which emphasises all other noises around it, as a random European legend twists open the plastic ball like he’s just eaten a massive Kinder Surprise, places the empty shell on the desk...
“FUCKING hell mate, your full backs are good.” A text message sent to me from my Spurs-supporting friend at full time last Sunday. I initially took it as a general pleasantry, until I put myself in his depleted shoes following a torrid last-minute defeat. What had he...
IF the Premier League insist on inscribing “Lucky Liverpool” on their trophy next month, I don’t suppose it will spoil the title celebrations for any of you. Champions are rarely popular. They are never lucky. Liverpool got a little lucky just before...
“THERE are 500,000 ways to win a football game.” That’s what Jürgen Klopp told the waiting press in the aftermath of Liverpool’s white knuckle 2-1 win over Spurs at Anfield on Sunday. If anything, Klopp might be underestimating the permutations, the nips and the...
AND then there were seven. Seven games, seven days, seven plots yet to be written. Seven beginnings, seven endings. Our silent prayer must be that they all remain relevant. We’ve come this far that the minimum we’re surely permitted is to be there to see how this all...
MENTALITY. It’s a strange concept, isn’t it? There is no quantifiable output, no defined characteristics that scouts can look for, nor a clear distinction on paper between a player with a winning mentality and one without. As the word suggests, it’s all in the mind....
SOMEBODY once asked me what my biggest gripe about Liverpool city centre was on an Anfield Wrap episode of AFQ. I could have mentioned the newly built “haunted house” eyesore that had opened on Dale Street which looked completely out of place. Or the fact that I...
I’M not in the habit of picking fights with people as big as Jürgen Klopp. However, I do think Liverpool need to spend again before next season. I don’t why he chose last week to announce that the company credit card would be staying in his pocket this summer. Maybe...
YOUR heart pounding when James Milner steps up. Your head hurts a little bit, that might be a sign of last night, your head hurts and your heart pounds, and you watch James Milner step up and you are pleased he is there but know what it all means. It means everything....
On this episode of TAW Unwrapped, we look at the winners and losers of Liverpool’s pre-season, those that have impressed and took their opportunity from senior members of the squad, our new signings and academy prospects, before casting an eye on those who may have missed a chance to make an impression.
John Gibbons hosts Neil Atkinson, Kieran Molyneux and Craig Hannan…
