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...
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....
