ONE of them, isn’t it? Fuck it, it’s gone, in fact, I’d go so far as to say that the biggest compliment you could ever give to how good Liverpool are is how Jose Mourinho and Manchester United lined up today. When you’ve got the manager who’s spent more than any other...
THEY’RE too soft. They crumble too easily. There are too many nice lads who don’t know what it really takes to win. All accusations levelled at various Liverpool teams over recent years and, often, justifiably so. But, for the first time in a long time, something...
LIVERPOOL are getting a lot of things right at the moment. Putting the ball in the goal lots. Stopping the ball from going in their goal lots. Getting Sadio Mane to celebrate like he’s on Stars In Their Eyes and has told Matthew Kelly that tonight he’s going to be...
IN a surprisingly relaxed press briefing earlier this week, and with the return of Rafa Benitez on the horizon, Jürgen Klopp was predictably asked his opinion on a man still held in the highest regard by most Liverpool fans. And the German couldn’t have been more...
A QUESTION I often ask myself is how much someone needs to be paid before people in general, and football fans in particular, stop treating them like humans and, instead, act as though they are robots with none of the same weaknesses and flaws that the rest of us...
WHEN talking about the difficulties of dominating English football in the modern era, John O’Shea seems an unusual reference point for my brain to use. However, I find myself thinking about him and mentioning him in conversations about winning far more than I ever...
ON the The Anfield Wrap’s “Review” show after the Southampton game, host Neil Atkinson said a few things that chimed with me. Developments in recent weeks had gotten me thinking, and Neil’s words on that show offered some corroboration. In amongst the...
A FREQUENT debate around Liverpool’s defensive shortcomings is whether The Reds lack quality defensive players or whether there is a fault in Jürgen Klopp’s footballing philosophy, writes EDWARD GINN. Having been linked with a £50million move for Leicester City’s...
What a win for The Reds, what a performance from Liverpool, what a night in Portugal. It’s a great showing from a Liverpool side that looks built to terrify Europe and we discuss the hows, the whys, the wherefores and the fuckinggetins of the contest. Sadio Mane...
In our long look at Liverpool’s win at Southampton we discuss the different phases of the game. Liverpool putting early pressure on the Saints, the home side coming back to donate the ball in the first period but unable to carve Liverpool open, and the Liverpool...
The Anfield Wrap’s podcast were we delve into the talking points from Liverpool’s recent win at Anfield against Fulham…
Neil Atkinson is joined by John Gibbons, Kieran Molyneux and Grace Mailey.
Also in the show, John chats to Dan and Linford from RAWD a charity offering people with learning difficulties the chance to express themselves through creative mediums like theatre and music…
