by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 21, 2017 | Footie
DOMINIC CLIFF JAMES Milner netted his seventh consecutive penalty of the season against Manchester City on Sunday. Despite his perfect record, Sky Sports cameras picked up Jürgen Klopp with his back turned to the field of play as the spot kick was being taken. Klopp...
by Paul Cope | Mar 21, 2017 | Footie
JAMES Milner was asked by Jamie Redknapp this week whether he likes playing left-back. “Honestly? No, I don’t,” was his frank reply. “It’s what the manager wants and what’s best for the team and if he thinks it’s best for the...
by Josh Sexton | Mar 16, 2017 | LFC News
SADIO Mane believes the timing of his move to Liverpool was perfect, despite having the opportunity to sign for Jürgen Klopp’s Dortmund back in 2014. The Senegalese forward is the Reds’ top scorer this season with 12 goals, while his pace has added another dimension...
by Adam Smith | Mar 16, 2017 | Footie
IN my column last week I asked whether we’re maybe a little bit too critical of our own players. My point was actually about the fact that we don’t give opposition players or teams enough credit for what they do to thwart us, but even so there’s an irony in the fact...
by Paul Cope | Mar 14, 2017 | Footie
“THERE is no truth. There is only perception.” (Gustave Flaubert) Before the Burnley post-match analysis started and the usual new statistics started coming through, if you’d asked me for my perception of this Jürgen Klopp Liverpool team I’d have told you that it’s...
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 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 Paul Cope | Mar 7, 2017 | Footie
THE debates are raging again about Emre Can. As soon as you read that you’ll instantly know what you think of him. Your unconscious mind will access the ‘Emre Can File’ and remind your conscious mind of what you’ve decided following a few years of watching this...
by Adam Melia | Mar 7, 2017 | Footie
CARDS on the table, I don’t rate Fenway Sports Group. They’ve been in my Si Mignolet category for a while now, where it’s miles too late for the occasional good thing they do to make an impact on the memory bank of previous gaffes, howlers, and...
by Rob Gutmann | Mar 7, 2017 | Footie
THE reporting of Liverpool’s renewed interest in Mario Gotze (by the unimpeachable Melissa Reddy) was roundly greeted with a consensus of eye rolling and head shaking by the Liverpool FC nation. Why do we want he who didn’t want us, and has turned out to be a dreadful...
