EVERYBODY talks about 1988. They’re right to. It was a joyous time to be a Red. The double was still in the memory and we made two enormous signings the previous summer to go alongside John Aldridge and the curious Irish-Scottish crossbreed of Ray Houghton, who...
I MIGHT as well tell you now – this isn’t going to be popular. Four years ago today, Fenway Sports Group/New England Sports Ventures took over Liverpool Football Club and delivered us from evil. For many it was like the last few minutes of Return of the Jedi....
Goalkeeper DAVID PREECE, who has played for a string of clubs including Sunderland, Aberdeen and current employers Lincoln, recalls the time a Liverpool legend turned up for training I’VE had my brushes with greatness. Some of them brief, some of them painful; some of...
It’s 26 years to the day since Ian Rush returned to Liverpool after his short spell at Juventus. NEIL SCOTT remembers it well. AS anyone with a cursory knowledge of the football landscape will tell you, the transfer window has its own unique lexicon. “Sources...
LIVERPOOL manager Bob Paisley paid a British record £440,000 to bring Kenny Dalglish south from Celtic. As a player at Anfield, Kenny won six league titles, two FA Cups, four League Cups, three European Cups and one Super Cup. It’s widely recognised as the best...
SUNDAY’S 4-0 drubbing of Spurs made it 9-0 on aggregate for the season and sent the Reds back to the top of the table with the title in their own hands – but it’s not the first time Tottenham have been on the wrong side of a thrashing from Liverpool....
by NEIL SCOTT PERSPECTIVE. Something we’re always being told we must maintain a sense of, yet no-one can definitively state what it does or doesn’t entail. An unflinching optimist’s perspective will differ wildly from that of a committed misery-guts and it seems...
SOME people have never recovered from June 2010. Barely a year since Liverpool’s most ferocious title challenge in years, five years since Istanbul, six years since a period which brought us trophies, belief and Luis Garcia – it was over. At the stroke of a private...
Great Scot! Our ‘LFC Greatests’ theme which randomly dips into our unique club history has rolled the dice on the finest Scottish footballers to grace our club. You tend to forget how many there’ve been; the Liverbird and the flower of Scotland have become...
A lot of things have been pissing me off lately. Allow me to share. It might help. As I write this I’m veering between a right old rage and a fit of the giggles at Conservative blogknob Iain Dale’s attack on ‘ghastly’ Liverpool. Let’s save that for another day. Lots...
Liverpool’s Inter Improvement & Mo Salah Madness: TAW Midweek Extra
The Anfield Wrap’s midweek free podcast brings reaction to Liverpool’s win over Inter Milan, the latest on Mo Salah and a look ahead to Brighton & Hove Albion. John Gibbons hosts Craig Hannan, Adam Melia and Jay McKenna…
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