by The Anfield Wrap | Oct 30, 2017 | Footie
WHATEVER club you support, we all have our pre-match routines: attire adorned, stomach lined, bets placed, mates met, ale sank, turnstile clicked, adrenaline pumping, form forgotten, writes JOEL ROOKWOOD. With kick off imminent you become consumed by the impending...
by Michael Nevin | Oct 27, 2017 | Footie
“WHO are you giving the job to? No, let me tell you. It’s Graeme fucking Souness, isn’t it?” Phil Thompson and Souness never really saw eye to eye and here was ruthless Bob Paisley bestowing the gnarly Scot with the Liverpool captaincy so cherished by Kirkby’s finest....
by Rob Gutmann | Oct 26, 2017 | Footie
IT’S been a joyless week. Calamitous defeats don’t aid restful sleep. Saturday can’t come too soon and yet simultaneously may just make things worse. I’ve been arguing on social media, but mainly in my head, with good friends about the manager. I like the manager and...
by Paul Cope | Oct 25, 2017 | Footie
THERE’S a strange phenomenon occurring around the fields of Anfield Road at the moment. It’s something I noticed months ago and have been watching with fascination as it’s developed, while not being entirely sure what I think about the whole thing. As the performances...
by Michael Nevin | Oct 20, 2017 | Footie
FOR all Liverpudlians it has already been an exhausting season. The football has been mostly breathless but we’re actually tired of working this team out and it’s still only October. Rampant, attacking football but a glut of missed chances placed incongruously...
by Dan Morgan | Oct 18, 2017 | Footie
IN the midst of last Saturday’s draw with Manchester United, while Ashley Young was doing his utmost to prevent Liverpool gaining any kind of momentum, my gaze became fixed on another player. The lovely autumn sun and the vibrancy of the green Anfield turf left me...
by Paul Cope | Oct 18, 2017 | Footie
WE all needed that, Reds, didn’t we? It’s typical Liverpool to go from having no one on the end of gilt-edged chances for weeks on end to having players literally running into each other to put the ball in the net and not being able to decide which of them actually...
by Neil Atkinson | Oct 17, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
A STROLL? A side put to the sword? An enjoyable game for Liverpool? It’s the last thing I hope that Liverpool focus on in the dressing room, on the plane, on the training pitch. How enjoyable it was to play, and create, and score. And score. We can want them to...
by Joel Rabinowitz | Oct 17, 2017 | Footie
HARK back to May after Liverpool had secured their top four position on the final day of the season and you would’ve had some very long odds on Alberto Moreno still being at the club come the start of the 2017-18 season. Even more improbable would’ve been the...
by Rob Gutmann | Oct 17, 2017 | Footie
WE’RE not back but we will be soon. A bit of trust is required. Liverpool are a good team playing as well as it can, absent the confidence and concentration that only winning brings. One win in eight games sounds bad. It is bad. But if there’s a way to be as good as...