by Neil Atkinson | Apr 17, 2016 | Footie
BOURNEMOUTH — the most obliging away in a long time. On the pitch today and in the bars last night. Bournemouth delightful. A delightful series of wins, crowned by a 10-man changed Liverpool eking out three deserved points. It’s a lovely place determined...
by Rob Gutmann | Apr 16, 2016 | Footie
WE’RE hoping for some weather. Seven men in a van going for a knees-up in a seaside town. The life the Reds give you. I’m getting this done at half six on the morning before the game. Getting picked up in three hours. Driving down in handsome John Gibbons’...
by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 16, 2016 | Footie
THE board had just gone up showing four minutes of added time as Daniel Sturridge fed James Milner in the penalty area, writes JOEL RABINOWITZ. His first touch was heavy, just keeping the ball in play as he floated the ball to the back post, where Dejan Lovren,...
by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 14, 2016 | Footie
Dortmund (h) Morning seems strange, almost out of place. Searched hard for you and your special ways. These days, these days Ian Curtis (Joy Division & England, 1980) God knows what Ian was on about. He was mooching about in Macclesfield/Manchester neck of the...
by Melissa Reddy | Apr 13, 2016 | Footie
THERE is always a then and now. Regardless of the ever-changing landscape of the game, that juxtaposition is one of football’s constants. Even the profession of covering the sport has its sepia-tinted throwback and high-definition reality. Journalists reporting on a...
by Simon Hughes | Apr 13, 2016 | Footie
BRENDAN Rodgers resisted the ray of warm sunshine that flashed through the window in front of him by wearing a long, grey coloured mac. Perching himself on a table he began to confidently explain how his Swansea City team had secured their Premier League future...
by David Segar | Apr 13, 2016 | Footie
THURSDAY brings with it Liverpool’s biggest European game since the 2010 UEFA Cup semi-final with Atletico Madrid. Little did we know when Diego Forlan was denying us the chance to batter Roy Hodgson’s Fulham in the final that it would be the last time the Reds would...
by John Gibbons | Apr 12, 2016 | Footie
DORTMUND holds a special place in my heart, as I’m sure it does for many others around my age. My first European final in 2001, the club’s first since 1985, and a crazy day and night where it lashed down and there were an improbable number of goals...
by Rob Gutmann | Apr 9, 2016 | Footie
STOKE at home. Nothing to play for. Only Stoke at home. Nothing to play for. Might as well not go. When I was 12, I went to my first match at Anfield. It was a League Cup game on a midweek night against Portsmouth. They were then, as now, mired somewhere in football’s...
by John Gibbons | Apr 8, 2016 | Footie
TACTICAL games are tough to score. Liverpool set up solid and went about their business well. They knew what they needed to do and largely did it. For that they all deserve credit. That said, you wouldn’t say anyone was outstanding. When everyone is a cog,...
