by Martin Fitzgerald | Mar 6, 2016 | Footie
EVENING, everyone. Welcome to the second edition of this column which Gareth has catchily tilted ‘Five from Fitzgerald’. If you don’t know how it works, I’ll quickly explain — I have five thoughts about the game and then list them here....
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 6, 2016 | Podcast, TAW Player
Joining Neil Atkinson for an al fresco post match review show in ‘The Pink’ is Rob Gutmann as they rave about Liverpool’s late Christian Benteke winner against Crystal Palace and the battling qualities shown by Klopp’s men in getting the three...
by John Gibbons | Mar 6, 2016 | Footie
I HAD written this introduction in my head on about 70 and it was moody as anything. It talked about consistency and how it separates winners from everyone else. It also talked about how the real problem, more than consistency, was quality and that the team looked...
by Neil Atkinson | Mar 6, 2016 | Footie
THERE was a line running through my head before the winner. It was this: “The record books don’t record everything.” This while Liverpool are toiling at 1-1 and down to 10. Thinking that will look like Liverpool have failed to back up one good win...
by Rob Gutmann | Mar 5, 2016 | Footie
CRYSTAL Palace — the team of the 80s. That become the media’s billing for Terry Venables’ bright young Cockney things who went from promotion to the top flight to being considered the fresh new dynamic face of modern football in a short space of time, at...
by The Anfield Wrap | Nov 26, 2015 | Footie
AS part of our two-part TAW: Unwrapped special on the Anfield atmosphere, our man GLENN PRICE spoke to Jim Daly from Crystal Palace fanzine and podcast The Five Year Plan about Selhurst Park’s upturn in decibels thanks to the work of the group calling themselves the...
by The Anfield Wrap | Nov 9, 2015 | Footie
ON current form, if the once famous Anfield roar really was our “Twelfth Man”, he would have been ignominiously hauled off before half-time never to pull on a red jersey again, writes DAVID WEBBER. Blame for his decline is usually attributed towards the...
by Martin Fitzgerald | Nov 8, 2015 | Footie
THE piece I had in mind if we won was much better if I’m honest. It was half about settling scores, half about The Anfield Wrap going to karaoke and singing Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits. It had everything. Atkinson as a flirtatious Juliet, Gibbo as a love...
by John Gibbons | Nov 8, 2015 | Footie
SUCH a frustrating day, especially with others dropping points. The Palace fans sang: “You must be sick of us.” They’re not wrong. Then we all got absolutely soaked. Brilliant. Maybe international breaks aren’t so bad after all. Simon Mignolet: 4 If your USP is...
by Rob Gutmann | Nov 7, 2015 | Footie
GHOSTS roam the stadium in Anfield. I see them every game. I see a Kenny Dalglish-shaped apparition: arms aloft, teeth, hair, smiling like a kid. Running towards The Kop. I see Bill Shankly: be-scarfed, arms aloft, teeth clenched, jaw proud. Striding towards The Kop....
