“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...
WORLD-FAMOUS psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud once wrote a book called The Interpretation of Dreams. I’ve leafed through it, but there are very few mentions of football. I had a dream on Friday night and being rather rubbish at being a bloke, I decided to tell...
Last season, Liverpool’s best title challenge in a generation helped fired-up fans find their voice at the match. And that’s something to be celebrated, writes MARTIN FITZGERALD “They want to see the team winning – let’s not kid ourselves, we’re a small country, we’re...
RUBIK’S Cube opponents, we used to trip up against a lot of Rubik’s Cube opponents. Those type of games and opposition that common-sense states we shouldn’t struggle with, except we do. Teams that come to Anfield and have the temerity to score first, then...
I’M furious. Bloody furious. Reasons:1. The manager picked the wrong team.2. The wrong team were set up in the wrong way.3. The wrong team set up in the wrong way approached and started the game in the wrong manner.4. The wrong team set up in the wrong way that...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined for this week’s City Talk Podcast by Paul Cope, Mike Girling and John Gibbons on the eve of Liverpool’s 8 goal thriller against Villa. Music this week from The Cheap Thrills and Silent Sleep. The Cheap Thrills – O Paradise...
EVERYONE remembers their first game don’t they? I think I’ve told you mine but I’ll tell you again. May 1990, I’d just turned 8 years old, and my dad had two tickets for Liverpool vs QPR at Anfield. When he showed me them they may as well have...
England Crash Out Leaving Spain v Argentina | The Breakfast Wrap LIVE
The Anfield Wrap’s Live Breakfast Wrap on the morning after England exited the World Cup at the hands of Argentina, conceding two late goals having taken the lead in the semi-final and coming agonisingly close to reaching their first World Cup final since 1966.
