What a Friday Show we have for you, setting up your weekend here on The Anfield Wrap. We start in Manchester with our old rivals and our direct adversaries squaring off on Saturday night. Manchester City find themselves on the brink of a very strange season indeed....
IT feels strange to view a derby as a sideshow. At least it’s tempting to fall into this trap. Big Sam will say to his blue boys: “Their heads are elsewhere. Their legs are heavy, their hearts are lost in Europe”. Jürgen Klopp, though, will be taking faces...
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1985/86 was a league season full of significance not just for Liverpool but for the whole football league. The game was in turmoil, as was the nation, and it took a magnificent campaign to give the game the boost it needed. Tony Evans has written a book on that season...
WELL then. He’s back at Anfield tomorrow with The Hammers, or is it The Irons? The lads from London Stadium, or is it The Olympic Stadium? The geezers who used to patrol the manor of Upton Park, or was it the Boleyn Ground? Bit mixed are East London’s finest and now...
Liverpool overcame Everton in a pulsating FA Cup at Anfield to see them progress the Reds progress to the fourth-round of the competition for the seventh year running. In a game that bore little resemblance to the league fixture weeks before, what did both manager do...
With a a club record transfer and a Merseyside Derby victory to discuss The Anfield Wrap isn’t short of material this week. We start with off the field matters. Philippe Coutinho has gone to Barcelona and where does this leave Liverpool’s season? What...
FA Cup ties are all about getting through and The Reds are in the fourth round. Everton? Add another candle to the cake, dickheads. All the best. Loris Karius: 0 After every day in work I like to analyse what I’ve done against my job description. So let’s...
That was good wasn’t it? Liverpool were dreadful but Virgil van Dijk popped up to win the match for the Mighty Boys In Red and Liverpool swagger away into the distance into the fourth round of the FA Cup. The Reds found a way, found a third consecutive 2-1 win...
WITH £75million for paper and things, Virgil got his own set of wings, With his feet off the ground, And the corner on flight, With the Blueshite dead tight, He scored at The Kop Virgil van Dijk… Boss that, wasn’t it? The best kind of win. Absolutely shite,...
BY their standards, Liverpool were dreadful. Against the expectations, Everton were quite good. And yet Everton never deserved a result from the game and Liverpool never quite deserved to be punished. This is what it is to be better. It must be heartbreaking for...
‘The Swiss System’ Or A Super League?: TAW Unwrapped
This week’s ‘TAW Unwrapped’ takes a look at the revised Champions League format, how it played out last season and what to look forward to as the Reds begin their 25/26 European Cup campaign.
Neil Atkinson is joined by Beth Lindop, Adam Melia and Kieran Molyneux.
