by Simon Hughes | Oct 14, 2015 | Footie
ALBERTO Aquilani hadn’t played a game for Liverpool when a banner in his name was unfurled on the Kop for the first time. It displayed the Italian’s shirt number in Roman numerals next to an emphatic message telling of a hero rising, as if the new signing was a...
by John Gibbons | Oct 13, 2015 | Footie
A MANAGERIAL change is never just a managerial change. Collateral damage is high. When the manager clears his desk, everyone from his coaches to the tea lady worries they will soon be doing the same. Assistant manager Sean O’Driscoll, Head of Performance Glen...
by Gareth Roberts | Oct 12, 2015 | Footie
THE well-worn script has been shoved down our throats so many times that you know the lines off by heart when it’s regurgitated for public consumption once again. Liverpool are finished. Liverpool are a relic. Liverpool are living in the past; a famous name but an...
by Adam Smith | Oct 11, 2015 | Footie
HOPE is defined as “a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen”. My life right now is like a Jurgen Klopp-inspired version of Being John Malkovich; every time I look at someone my brain is superimposing a beard and a pair of...
by The Anfield Wrap | Oct 11, 2015 | Footie
WHILE listening to The Anfield Wrap’s show on Radio City Talk on Friday night, there was one line which struck home with me. “There’s kind of nowhere to go from that if it doesn’t work out.” Words spoken by Craig Rimmer that hit home with me, writes SIMON FURNIVALL....
by The Anfield Wrap | Oct 11, 2015 | Footie
BEING away on holiday with limited internet access while Liverpool Football Club sacked Brendan Rodgers and appointed Jurgen Klopp was a strange experience, writes NEIL DOCKING. Admittedly our villa in Menorca had a pretty good wi-fi signal. But then I used up the...
by The Anfield Wrap | Oct 11, 2015 | Footie
EMOTION isn’t much of a buzzword in modern football, writes LIAM BLAKE. It can’t be quantified or measured. You won’t find an entry for it in Opta stats, and football hipsters don’t turn to Squawka for a breakdown. But that’s not to say...
by Andy Heaton | Oct 10, 2015 | Footie
IT has been, without doubt, Fenway Sports Group’s boldest move since assuming control of the club five years ago. But even if Jürgen Klopp never wins a game as Liverpool manager (he will), even if his time in charge is an absolute disaster (it won’t be),...
by Michael Nevin | Oct 9, 2015 | Footie
SO, he’s finally here. Jürgen Klopp was the obvious choice, but when of late have FSG opted for the obvious thing and actually accomplished it? No hard-luck stories this time about competing with big fat Manchester wage slips or shopping under the bright lights of...
by Gareth Roberts | Oct 9, 2015 | Footie
THE Normal One. You absolutely nailed it there, Jurgen, lad. Hit it out the park. A press conference is a game and the new boss won it. The gathered media pack from all around the world had descended on Anfield this morning searching for a line. They got the line....
