FOR the first time since his controversial departure from Liverpool to Chelsea in 2011, Fernando Torres has given his side of the story. In Simon Hughes’s new book Ring of Fire, which is released next week (Thursday, August 25), Torres exclusively catalogues the...
The Wrap Up is our daily subscriber update of the latest LFC news. On the glorious 25th May John Gibbons and Andy Heaton bring you the latest stories out of Anfield. Mario Gotze looks like he’s definitely staying at Bayern Munich, after Germany manager Joachim...
THE Daniel Sturridge v Fernando Torres cold stats are in Sturridge’s favour; slightly better total goals to total appearances ratio, significantly better total goals to starts ratio. But I don’t want stats. I want to slay some dragons and move on. Torres...
IN among the bluster of the story, perhaps the defining moment of an entire era was buried last week when Alex Teixeira gave an exclusive interview, detailing precisely why he wanted to leave Shakhtar Donetsk while wearing a polo shirt issued by the club that pays his...
OF all the days in the club’s recent memory, the 30th of January, 2011 — or, as it’s known to keen Jim White fans: ‘THE MADDEST TRANSFER DEADLINE DAY’ — represents a strange turning point in Liverpool’s history, writes KIERAN MORRIS. The club was in the...
FINALLY free. You, me and Fernando, writes MELISSA REDDY. There was a delay of a few seconds; unintentionally deliberate and dramatic. The song, that song was being sung again. Lips were moving and ‘Fernando Torres, Liverpool’s number nine’ was loudly in motion, but...
FERNANDO Torres is about to pack his bags and head off to Italy. He’ll leave a rich man, he’ll leave with almost every honour in the game and, if he has any humanity, he’ll leave with a sense of waste. He’ll be replaced at Chelsea by a man who failed a medical at...
by STEVEN SCRAGG CAN you hear the drums, Fernando? A bumpy, playful but satisfyingly successful night out in West London it turned out to be for Liverpool at Craven Cottage – an area of the world not too far from where an old friend by the name of Fernando Torres...
In February 1987 Liverpool played an everyday bog standard home game with Southampton. As with many Liverpool/Soton games it didn’t have much to recommend it. Peter Shilton was in goal so the game was automatically relegated to an undercard as the Kop preferred...
The Anfield Wrap’s free podcast after Fulham 1 Liverpool 3 during the 2023-2024 Premier League season at Craven Cottage. Neil Atkinson hosts Rob Gutmann, Mo Stewart and Josh Williams…
