by The Anfield Wrap | Oct 16, 2017 | Podcast, TAW Player, Under The Lights
Liverpool face Slovenian champions Maribor in their third Champions League fixture tomorrow in search of their first win of the campaign. Joining John Gibbons to preview the game is Gareth Roberts, Andy Heaton and Rob Gutmann. John also speaks to Maribor and Liverpool...
by Andy Heaton | Oct 14, 2017 | Footie
FOR all the pre-match posturing, Jose Mourinho once again showed that when the chips are down he’s the game’s biggest shithouse. The Manchester United manager had been at pains all week to tell anyone who shoved a microphone in his face that today’s fixture was...
by Michael Nevin | Oct 13, 2017 | Footie
AM I going a bit soft, I thought this week, as I found myself glued, gushingly sympathetic and admiring of the life of Sir Bobby Charlton as brilliantly portrayed by the BBC? While watching, even my wife observed, “It’s a bit too United for me”, adding to her concerns...
by David Segar | Oct 10, 2017 | Footie
TWO years ago this week Jürgen Klopp took the managerial reigns at Liverpool, four days after Brendan Rodgers was sacked. To celebrate two years of Klopp, here’s an exclusive extract from David Segar’s new book “Kloppite: One Man’s Quest to...
by Michael Nevin | Oct 6, 2017 | Footie
IS it just me, or does the Liverpool FC song repertoire feel a bit tired? Without falling victim to the notion “it was better in my day”, when you regularly hear The Fields of Anfield Road rolled out thrice before half time on a European night, it does make you wonder...
by Rob Gutmann | Sep 29, 2017 | Footie
I’M not sure I can quite recall a spell like this. The performances from the start of the season up until now have been fairly consistent. 10 games that Liverpool have dominated, bar one (at Manchester City where we had to play with 10 men for most of the...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 26, 2017 | Footie
ANOTHER story of missed chances for Liverpool in their second Champions League group game. For all the stick the defence get, and all the praise the attack get, The Reds have missed too many clear-cut chances in recent games. Anyway, here are Anfield Wrap contributors...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 25, 2017 | Podcast, TAW Player, Under The Lights
As Liverpool land in Russia for tomorrow’s Champions League match with Spartak Moscow, John Gibbons is joined by Paul Senior, Andy Heaton and Gareth Roberts to look ahead to the game. Gareth also speaks to Sasha Goryunov, a Red, a Russian, and a writer and...
by Michael Nevin | Sep 22, 2017 | Footie
ALL of a sudden, after Burnley and Leicester followed familiar scripts, Liverpool FC is the prime critical focus of the sports media. The notion of a “Crisis Club” has been around for as long as I can remember, albeit in a different guise. Once upon a time, the...
by Paul Cope | Sep 20, 2017 | Footie
SO, where do we start this week? I was going to begin writing this before the Leicester match but decided to hang fire in case anything of note happened that rendered my article useless before it was published. As it happened, we just got to watch the same match again...