IN REPLY TO THE GUARDIAN’S NONSENSE….

IN REPLY TO THE GUARDIAN’S NONSENSE….

I READ an article on The Guardian’s website this week, writes KATE FORRESTER. I have to do something to while away the long, endless hours until Liverpool play football again.   I’m not going to link to it (because it’s complete nonsense) – <Ed:...

WHY DO PEOPLE WATCH SPORT?

By Martin Fitzgerald I watch sport because I want to see people do wonderful things. I watch sport because I want to see people being brilliant, being brilliant at sport. I’ve come a long way in this respect. Let me explain. I used to hate Steve Davis. Bloody hated...

PODCAST – SEVENTY FIVE!

NEIL Atkinson was joined in the studio by Steve Graves, Rob Gutmann and Jim Boardman as they reminisce about the 2002 season and other nonsense on a matchless week – including our impending trip to NYC – for AN ENTIRE 75 MINUTES! Get issue 8 of TAW’s...
THE ANFIELD WRAP MAGAZINE #8: SPIRIT’S IN THE SKY

THE ANFIELD WRAP MAGAZINE #8: SPIRIT’S IN THE SKY

CAN LIVERPOOL FC win the league? That’s the question every Red is asking themselves, their mates, their family and anyone else that will listen. So it would have been rude to not ask the very same question of a player who was in the Liverpool side last time the...

TAW: AN EMPIRE STATE OF MIND

IT’S official, we’re coming back. Powered by Red Touch Media and in association with New York City Kopites, The Anfield Wrap are made up to announce that we’re returning to New York City to host three nights at The Football Factory at Legends Bar....
WHY WON’T FOOTBALL BANISH THE BULLSHIT?

WHY WON’T FOOTBALL BANISH THE BULLSHIT?

IF there’s one thing guaranteed to annoy football fans, it’s bullshit. And there’s a lot of it around. As the powers-that-be – the football authorities and the Government – have saw fit to idly stand by and let any old tycoon get their mitts on our beloved clubs, many...

SUAREZ: IT MAKES NO ODDS

IT makes no odds. I understand why people think it does. I understand the recourse to emotion. That’s the aim. It makes no odds. When he ran out on Saturday Suarez may have been surprised by the warmth of the response. I suspect his agent was. I suspect it made him...

FOOTBALL AND THE MORAL QUESTION

Football, we’re often told, has a morality problem. Players dive (if foreign) and go to ground too easily (if English). Players (foreign) wave imaginary cards. Fans sing offensive songs, abuse referees, name rape victims on social networks. God, everybody’s on them...

The Twenty Third Men – Part Two

PART one in this was about Steven Gerrard’s potential usefulness to Liverpool as a 23rd man in the squad. But Liverpool’s actual number 23 is potentially at a crossroads. Jamie Carragher’s spent the summer demonstrating what we thought – he’s a sharp observer of...