by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 14, 2017 | Footie
I’VE seen a lot of top players coming through the ranks, writes ERIC SCHIPPER. Some up close, others personally. While I was too young to see the golden generation of 1988 grow up, I watched them win it all. But I did see the likes of Clarence Seedorf, Dennis...
by Rob Gutmann | Mar 10, 2017 | Footie
‘I WAS in a car crash — or was it the war? — well, I’ve never been quite the same’ (G.Numan, ‘Down in the Park’, 1979) Melissa Reddy of Goal.com and The Anfield Wrap posited this week that the Liverpool players were still...
by Gareth Roberts | Mar 10, 2017 | Footie
IT’S the game everyone’s been talking about this week. A “did you see it last night?” moment in work. Barcelona’s unlikely comeback in Europe had grown men leaping around TV studios like overwhelmed children unwrapping the present of their dreams on Christmas Day...
by Karl Coppack | Mar 10, 2017 | Footie
THIS night began with me nearly being run over outside the HJC shop. My mates and I had been raising some money for a former Liverpool great and would often meet people who wanted to help out. It so happened that on the night of the Madrid game we met a man called...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 8, 2017 | Footie
DAVID TULLY “QUALIFYING for the Champions League would be a big success, 100 per cent. Qualifying for the Europa League, I’m not sure that I could sell it as success. But it would be okay. It would be a step in the right direction.” Jürgen Klopp’s right, of...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 3, 2017 | Footie
AHEAD of this weekend’s clash with Arsenal, TAW contributors look back on nine times Liverpool have slapped ‘the Arse’. August 17, 1985: Liverpool 2 Arsenal 0 “DO you know these men?” The start of a new football season, the traditional warm August...
by Michael Nevin | Mar 3, 2017 | Footie
IT becomes increasingly difficult to make sense of Liverpool’s season as the lurch continues from title contenders at New Year to current outsiders for a spot in the top four. The commonly held current consensus is that the Reds can beat the good teams and not the...
by John Gibbons | Mar 2, 2017 | Footie
I HAVE sort of given myself Monday off. In the way that I’m still recording The Coach Home and I’m still getting a million emails and WhatsApp messages to do with work. But its relatively lazy and relaxed. For now. The reason for this is that I have guests...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 2, 2017 | Footie
MONDAY night at the King Power underlined the current Liverpool team’s plight as they were deservedly dispatched 3-1 by a Leicester City side galvanised by the sacking of Claudio Ranieri, writes JOE HAGAN-DUCKERS. Within the first five minutes it didn’t take an expert...
by Dan Morgan | Mar 1, 2017 | Footie
“WE are all trying to improve. Improvement sometimes means to change something; sometimes it just means to wait.” Jürgen Klopp has spoken a lot about young players and their development during his time as Liverpool manager. The quote above from October 2016 when...
