by Ian Salmon | Apr 12, 2016 | Footie
I HAVEN’T written anything on here for a couple of weeks. I’d love to think you’ve missed me but my ego’s not quite that rampant. My ego is, in fact, non-rampant enough to have looked at the stuff on the site and gone, ‘yeah, was going to...
by Martin Fitzgerald | Apr 10, 2016 | Footie
ALL right, everyone. You know the drill by the now, here are five thoughts on the game of football that happened earlier. 1) Pre-Match I caught up with Neil Atkinson and Rob Gutmann before the game while Leicester continued their bizarre march to the Premier League...
by John Gibbons | Apr 10, 2016 | Footie
A STRANGE day. A lot of lads turned up in “I’ve been to Dortmund” caps and a lot of lads turned up with “I’ve been the National” hangovers. A few lads didn’t turn up at all. Those still feeling the effects of Germany and...
by Neil Atkinson | Apr 10, 2016 | Footie
LIVERPOOL’S most comfortable league home performance of the season did everything Rob Gutmann told you it would. It announced one young talent, reaffirmed another and allowed the manager to experiment. Liverpool played as many shapes as they scored goals and...
by Rob Gutmann | Apr 9, 2016 | Footie
STOKE at home. Nothing to play for. Only Stoke at home. Nothing to play for. Might as well not go. When I was 12, I went to my first match at Anfield. It was a League Cup game on a midweek night against Portsmouth. They were then, as now, mired somewhere in football’s...
by Neil Atkinson | Apr 2, 2016 | Footie
TONIGHT at Anfield we watched two of the best 20 teams in Europe go head to head. Being honest, being frank, we probably watched two of the sides that would rank fifth to 20th in Europe go head to head. Bayern, Real and Barca a solar system away; Juventus and Atletico...
by John Gibbons | Apr 2, 2016 | Footie
A DRAW was probably a fair result. Tottenham were impressive, the best team to come to Anfield this year by a fair stretch. Yet, despite some careless passing, we actually found it easier to create chances against them than many other teams this year. Because they...
by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 2, 2016 | Podcast, TAW Player
JOHN Gibbons was joined for a post-Tottenham Hotspur Pink by Ian Salmon, Sean Neagle and Craig Hannan. Liverpool (4-4-1-1): Mignolet; Clyne, Lovren, Sakho, Moreno; Milner (Ibe 90), Henderson, Can, Coutinho; Lallana (Allen 82), Sturridge (Origi 72). Substitutes: Ward,...
by Martin Fitzgerald | Apr 2, 2016 | Footie
EVENING everyone, Here’s five thoughts on the football match that’s just happened. 1) The Anfield Wrap’s Rob Gutmann is on holiday My normal pre-match routine is to spend about an hour listening to Rob talk about The Human League while his children...
by Neil Atkinson | Mar 11, 2016 | Footie
THERE are three pieces here. Maybe four. Which one should we have? There’s one which slaughters: “The Sun was right, you’re murderers.” I like that one because I like Manchester. Manchester is better than that. Manchester is a working-class...