by Ben Johnson | Nov 28, 2016 | Footie
BIG seasons, league championship seasons are built on consistency first and foremost. Scattered through them there are defining moments that are looked back on time and again. Moments in time where your watch seems to stop and the actual consequences and gravity of...
by Karl Coppack | Nov 28, 2016 | Footie
IN April 1990, Liverpool beat QPR 2-1 at Anfield. A John Barnes penalty won the game and, by extension, the league with two games to go to finally see off the threat of – yes – Aston Villa. All wrapped up to the extent that Kenny brought himself off the bench for the...
by Neil Atkinson | Nov 26, 2016 | Footie, Match Review
HUNG on at the whistle. Hung on to give one more ‘is right’ and one more ‘cop for that’ and one more ‘up the Reds’. Hung on to see the manager and the captain in the middle of the pitch and to see them give it the big one, and I...
by Andy Heaton | Nov 26, 2016 | Footie
The match ratings from Liverpool’s 2-0 win over Sunderland. Loris Karius: 8 Another clean sheet for the young German, clearly gives no fucks what you think and good for him. Two decent saves in each half in angled one v one situations. Bar giving a soft corner...
by Rob Gutmann | Nov 25, 2016 | Footie
HE’S a funny cat Moyesy. It’s fashionable to dismiss him as just another incarnation of the British manager morph. There is no value left in the stock of UK-born managers. The nadir that the Gareth Southgate-for-England campaign represents has assured that much. It...
by Josh Sexton | Nov 25, 2016 | Footie
AHEAD of David Moyes’ return to Anfield we spoke to Eve Sayers from Sunderland fanzine A Love Supreme to get the lowdown on Liverpool’s upcoming opponents. Firstly, tell us a bit about yourself and A Love Supreme I’m a 21 year old Sports Journalism graduate and now...
by Paul Cope | Nov 22, 2016 | Footie
LIVERPOOL have dominated for 85 minutes away from home. They’ve missed chance after chance. Your doom-mongering mate sends you a Whatsapp message saying “They’ll score now, you know”. It gets to stoppage time. You’ve been biting your...
by John Gibbons | Nov 21, 2016 | Footie
SOUTHAMPTON is a long way. Famously. It’s pretty much as far as you are asked to go in the Premier League. If you go any further you are in the sea. Although it rained that much we might as well have got in the sea. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Mick...
by The Anfield Wrap | Nov 21, 2016 | Footie
TEN talking points from TAW contributors in the aftermath of Liverpool’s 0-0 draw against Southampton. Solid Southampton Tough game. Played well against a solid defence but didn’t take either of two golden chances. @NeilDocking. Shame that a Saints defence...
by Ben Johnson | Nov 21, 2016 | Footie
YOU see, the thing is, I haven’t seen a single second of Premier League football this weekend. In fact, why stop at the Premier League; I haven’t seen any football at all. The closest I have come to footy this weekend is my lad throwing a bouncy ball at my head,...
