BILL Shankly once likened the pain in the wake of an important defeat to cutting your finger: “It’s very sore to start with. After a few days it heals up. And then after a week you’ve forgotten, until the next match.” One of the great man’s less-heralded quotes, and...
“HE must be a f***ing winner. We expect those qualities in a player but he must be a winner.” I was told years ago that the above was a response from Joe Fagan to a young scout when he asked what Liverpool looked for in a player. Fagan responded saying,...
THIRTY years ago Joe Fagan – having already won the League Cup and the League title – took his Liverpool team to Rome where they would face Roma in the European Cup Final. Here, Liverpool defender Mark Lawrenson (from an extract of a book in which 12 Liverpool players...
ANDREW FAGAN (Joe’s Grandson) and Mark Platt have delivered a thorough and fitting biography of a true footballing gent. It concentrates as much on football as the man himself clearly did; what drips from every page is Joe Fagan’s love of the game. It’s there as...
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Liverpool 6 Qarabağ FK 0: TAW Midweek Extra
The Anfield Wrap react to Liverpool’s top 3 finish in the European Cup league stage to qualify automatically for the next round after convincingly dispatching Qarabag by six goals to nil at Anfield.
Reflecting on the game, the managers post match comments before previewing the clash against Newcastle on Saturday night are John Gibbons, James Sutton, Andy Heaton and Phil Blundell.
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