by Rob Gutmann | Nov 28, 2017 | Footie
I LIKE Jürgen Klopp. You can’t really know a “celebrity” but I think I’m not miles away with Jürgen. I’ve watched, I’ve listened, I’ve learned. He’s exactly the same age as me — give a take a month — and I feel I’ve got a decent...
by Gareth Roberts | Nov 24, 2017 | Footie
AN alarm call at 3.30am is likely to result in — at best — a fumble for the snooze button and — at worst — said alarm being angrily launched across the room as an instant return to slumber is sought. So when it instead sees you springing out of...
by Michael Nevin | Nov 24, 2017 | Footie
THE Mersey wind sweeps across the school playground, the rain puddles testimony to the darkening evening as another year approaches its end. Huddles of parents and grandparents gather their hats and coats against the wind, waiting expectedly for their young charges to...
by The Anfield Wrap | Nov 23, 2017 | Footie
WITH the January transfer window a little over a month away, attention has started to turn towards the Liverpool squad, and the potential to compensate for some of its seemingly obvious deficiencies, writes SAM JONES. Following a summer that started with enormous...
by The Anfield Wrap | Nov 21, 2017 | Podcast, TAW Player, Under The Lights
Liverpool face Sevilla in the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium tomorrow hoping to secure passage from the Champions League group stages and joining John Gibbons to preview the game are Andy Heaton and Dan Morgan. John is also joined by Spanish football expert Sid Lowe on...
by Rob Gutmann | Nov 16, 2017 | Footie
“FOOTBALL is fantastic when it’s a morning match. Football is fantastic when it’s an evening match. But football, is most fantastic when it’s played in the afternoon.” (Football Is Really Fantastic. Frank Sidebottom, 1984.) I’m unnaturally excited about Saturday. All...
by Michael Nevin | Nov 10, 2017 | Footie
EVEN in the impatient world of modern football, Liverpool supporters around the world are still famed for their loyal, unswerving support. Those of us who go to the game however, know a different side to Anfield and as recently as half time against Huddersfield Town a...
by Joel Rabinowitz | Nov 2, 2017 | Footie
THERE has been plenty of talk this season among fans, pundits and journalists alike about whether Liverpool need a more orthodox striker who guarantees a higher goal tally than Roberto Firmino has suggested he is capable of. It’s an intriguing conundrum and one which...
by Andy Heaton | Nov 1, 2017 | Footie
“LIVERPOOL Football Club would like to thank you for your continued support.” You’ve got to give it to the fella on the tannoy, he’s definitely got sarcasm nailed. Another famous European Night under the lights at Anfield? Do me a fucking favour. The power...
by Rob Gutmann | Oct 31, 2017 | Footie
IMAGINE if Liverpool won the European Cup again. It seems such a far off possibility as we contemplate not turning makeweights Maribor into a bad season-defining banana skin of an opponent. We don’t trust our Reds much these days. We’re not sure which incarnation...
