OURS is a club of extremes. We’re either in or out, up or down, black or white. The middle path is the one least travelled. We sway from the darkest cynicism to checking out next May’s Berlin hotel availability an hour after we’ve just been gubbed by Real Madrid. We...
THEY made us look ordinary. Since the word “ordinary” has been in my footballing vocabulary it’s been a pejorative. It’s also today something which is done to you. It’s something you don’t want to be but Bramall Lane happens and a muscular...
WE walk to the ground full of hope, predictions are flying around on the scorelines and they are mostly in favour of The Reds. We do this more based on positivity than logic. Its simply more fun to go to a game thinking you are going to win. But its also based on past...
“I’m pretty certain he’s the best footballer Dean Court – for sponsorship purposes now the Goldsands Ground – has ever seen. Literally – the oft-abused ‘literally’ – the best footballer that has ever played on this...
NEIL ATKINSON is joined by Mike Nevin, Steve Graves and Rob Gutmann to discuss Gerrard’s big move, Jordan’s big bollocking and a big, big three points Download Issue 12 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at app.theanfieldwrap.com for other devices. Like what we...
A WIN is a win? Sometimes a win is a win and nothing more can be gleaned from it. Sometimes it’s worth a little bit more than that – even when it’s the type of performance that usually provokes the response that “a win is a win”. Casablanca. 1942. Starring Dirk Bogart...
“PRESSURE is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.” I don’t quote Shankly...
By Dan Lett LIKE any Liverpool supporter, I will never forget my first European adventure. It was in Spain, I was eight years old, and the match was the 1986 FA Cup final. My dad and I had a great pair of seats at the poolside bar of the Hotel Club Cartago in Ibiza....
CHAMPIONS League nights are back. I’m later than I want to be, having stuff to do and then tickets to sort. But it works out well, getting up the stairs just as You’ll Never Walk Alone is starting. The Kop looks and sounds terrific. There is a We Are...
PFC Ludogorets Razgrad. Liverpool’s five-year exile from the Champions League ends tomorrow with the visit of Bulgarian champions PFC Ludogorets Razgrad. Let’s call them Ludogorets. Oh Ludogorets, what a name. You, Ludogorets, are exactly what the Champions League...
Liverpool emerged victorious in their first visit to the Hill Dickinson stadium, overcoming Everton in their new ground thanks to a 100th minute winner courtesy of Virgil van Dijk.
Neil Atkinson is joined by Ian Salmon, Rob Gutmann,Beth Lindop and Joel Penny.
