Manchester City 5 Liverpool 0: The Final Whistle

WELL, what do you say about that? The game is gone as soon as Sadio Mane controversially gets his marching orders but there’s no excuse for the way Liverpool played the rest of the game. Schoolboy from start to finish. Here’s what Anfield Wrap contributors...

Manchester City v Liverpool: The Big Match Preview

THIS one has come around again a bit swiftly for my tastes. The “game of the season” could have waited a bit. You can stick your Tottenham Hotspur best 11 and ye “champions elect” Manchester United up your arseholes. You can push champions Chelsea up there with them...

Liverpool 4 Arsenal 0: The Match Review

THE first big league occasion of the season. The first big win. Talking in general terms? Not quite. Last season last year’s champions beat last season’s runners-up but this feels like a north west kind of a season, a north west kind of a campaign. I could...

Liverpool 4 Arsenal 0: Match Ratings

LIVERPOOL absolutely tore Arsenal apart at Anfield, again. It’s becoming a regular occurrence, but no less pleasurable to witness. Yes, the Gunners had their problems with their midfielders deciding that defending was an optional extra, and Arsene Wenger’s bizarre...

Liverpool 4 Arsenal 0: The Final Whistle

WE’RE all human, and when a curve ball like the Liverpool No.1 being dropped for one of the biggest games of the season happens, it’s hard not to wonder why and worry about the impact on the game ahead. Good job The Reds cared not a jot about it all. Crowd...

Liverpool v Arsenal: The Big Match Preview

THERE has been an adage since 2014 that Arsenal represent gift opponents for Liverpool. It is true that the 5-1 dismantling of Arsene Wenger’s team in that year was so comprehensive that the after-shock of that event can still be felt. On the day it felt epoch...