IT’S that time of year again. Hope springs eternal. A nine-month journey that starts in summer brilliance, ploughs through the dark, mist, wind and rain, and the bite of winter frost before the onset of spring. The title run-in coincides with the return of...
THE last time I was in a football ground I walked out before the match had finished in a huff. I was annoyed. An hour earlier Liverpool had walked off the pitch in Basel with a 1-0 half time lead, about 85 per cent of the ground spent half-time singing There She Goes...
WE decided to ask Anfield Wrap contributors what they would do this summer with clubs that weren’t their own; how they would resurrect Aston Villa? How can Arsenal make the next step? Who would you hire and who would you fire? Each got to advise, be Director Of...
WE decided to ask Anfield Wrap contributors what they would do this summer with clubs that weren’t their own — how they would resurrect Aston Villa, how Arsenal make the next step. The questions are endless. Each got to advise, be Director Of Football or...
ALL eyes turn to Wednesday. All thoughts remain on Wednesday. No-one was at all arsed about that yesterday, where they? I mean, I thought we might get battered given the last time we played them Kloppo squared up to Pulis and allegedly threatened to eat his cap and...
I’M taking next season off to see what else happens in the world, so this is the last of my Five from Fitzgerald columns. I’d like to thank The Anfield Wrap for asking me to do it and the 27 people that read it on a regular basis. Most of all though...
I HAVE spent a lot of time recently thinking about Roald Dahl and his sheer unapologetic brilliance. There’s an attitude to what Dahl wrote. It is something about being determined to be awkward and ungainly. That being those things is simultaneously something to...
I RECEIVED a call late last night from Jurgen Klopp. He said: “Gibbo, Wednesday night is the big one. I’m resting 11 players and you need to rest up, too. The fans are just as important to us as the players. I’m telling all the big hitters to stay at...
THERE’S no hiding it. It’s going to be a tough one, this one. A game we are going to have to heave over the finishing line of a league season sadly long departed. It would be hard to fashion a contest as potentially uninspiring and lacking in relevance as this....
Liverpool Face Brighton After European Delight | Friday Live!
We look back at Liverpool’s win over Villarreal before previewing their big match against Brighton.Neil Atkinson is joined by John Gibbons, Steve Graves & Grace Mailey.
Also in the show, Neil chats to Taj Ali about his book ‘Come what may, we’re here to stay’, his book about South Asian resistance in Britain
