FOR this game versus Dortmund John’s gone with the facts. Done it excellently as per. Shall we do the feelings? The emotions? I like the reported German approach and response to football. I like it. The game as event. The game as a thing to look forward to and...
JOINING us for our latest show from Dortmund is Eric Meijer, back in the place where he supped some ale with Liverpool fans so famously in 2001. Eric joins John Gibbons, Tim Smith and Andy Heaton for a pre-Borussia Wrap Up with talk of tonight’s game and other...
Neil Atkinson and John Gibbons speak to Stefan Buczko about Liverpool’s away first leg last eight Europa League encounter against Borussia Dortmund. How good are this Dortmund side? What should be worrying The Reds? And could the emotion of the occasion get to...
WELL, they’re all away. The Anfield Wrap crew have decamped to Dortmund, via Amsterdam, on what Neil Atkinson described to me the other day as a “work experiment”. No further insight was proffered, leaving me to ponder if said experiment was to see if anyone can get...
IN the days after Johan Cruyff’s death, many of the obituaries were decorated with some of his most famous quotes about football. “Choose the best player for every position, and you’ll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong ones,” he said. “In my teams, the...
BORUSSIA DORTMUND are currently one of the most popular teams in world football. Five points off the top of the Bundesliga playing an entertaining brand of football, they are often seen as the barometer for how teams without bottomless resources should approach the...
TO celebrate ‘World Book Day’ we’re releasing a special free episode of our TAW Player show ‘Well Read’ with this edition focussing just on one book: Reading The Game: A Year In Black And Yellow This is collection of pieces of writing...
A SPECIAL edition of Well Read focussing just on one book: Reading The Game: A Year In Black And Yellow This is collection of pieces of writing inspired by Borussia Dortmund last season, when they were coached by current Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp and when they...
It almost doesn’t matter who he really is. It’s what he represents that counts most. All the cliches. We don’t like losing. We don’t like being looked down upon. Forever being re-classified. We’ve been getting told for 25 years now that...
