by Phil Blundell | Mar 1, 2017 | Footie
THE thing that alarmed me most about Monday night wasn’t actually the fact that we lost 3-1 to a team who have been awful for months, we were odds-on to beat, and should have been having for breakfast, it was that we managed to play 90 minutes away from home, play...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 24, 2017 | Footie
IAN RYAN BASTARDS in football. We all love them, don’t we? In my fairly short-lived football career, I was a centre forward in the mould of Peter Beardsley (nowhere near as good but better looking and with a bit more pace) but I wanted to be a bastard. The lad that...
by Michael Nevin | Feb 24, 2017 | Footie
THERE’S a lot more to Lucas Leiva’s Liverpool career than the bare facts of 334 appearances in a red shirt. In many ways the Brazilian defines the struggle of the modern Liverpool player entwined in the complexity of supporters’ expectations. Only through seniority,...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 22, 2017 | Footie
THIS break has been shit, hasn’t it? Tell yourself it’s been anything but and you’re wrong, writes DAN BEALE. Sixteen days without football when things should be starting to fall into place, strides firmly hit, is not enjoyable at all. It’s a long time to wait at any...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 21, 2017 | Footie
HAVING guided Swansea City to the Premier League, and the unexpected safety of a mid-table finish, Brendan Rodgers got his move to the next level when Fenway Sports Group selected him as the face of their project. This modern, innovative manager represented everything...
by Ian Salmon | Feb 20, 2017 | Footie
ON Monday February 13, I received an email from Neil Atkinson; could I do the second ever recording of the new AFQ Football podcast at 5pm that night? Obviously I said yes, I’ll say yes to anything that sounds like it’s going to be interesting and enjoyable. And then...
by Karl Coppack | Feb 20, 2017 | Footie
PHIL Neal is Liverpool’s greatest ever full-back. He just is. In any discussion of our finest Liverpool 11s his name is usually cemented into the number two shirt, even by those who didn’t see him play. It’s just a truism. If you’re tempted to compile a list, write...
by Adam Smith | Feb 16, 2017 | Footie
ACCORDING to statistics, about 20 per cent of the 65 million people that live in the UK have a Twitter account. Less than that number actually use it. Still, it is arguably the most important social media platform out there today, shaping the narrative of news stories...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 15, 2017 | Podcast, TAW Player, Unwrapped
In this week’s show Rob Gutmann is joined by Melissa Reddy, Josh Sexton and Sam Walkerdine to have a look at the six teams battling for Champions League qualification. With 13 league games remaining, each team is assessed in terms of their run-in, squad size and...
by David Segar | Feb 14, 2017 | Footie
THIS is one of those articles that will definitely be retweeted back to me when Liverpool finish sixth. There, I’ve acknowledged the fact. That should take care of any risk of jinx… but hang on, by acknowledging it does it now become re-jinxed? Can you even re-jinx...
