by John Gibbons | Dec 15, 2015 | Footie
DID it happen to you at the weekend? The realisation that we didn’t actually have a game this week? The disbelief that we weren’t going somewhere mad, in some competition or another, on Wednesday or Thursday? A whole week. What will we do with ourselves?...
by Gareth Roberts | Dec 14, 2015 | Footie
BEFORE the game yesterday Jürgen Klopp appealed for an atmosphere at Anfield. “Like all things in life, you can wait for the moment or you can create the moment,” he said. “Hopefully we can create the moment against West Brom. I’m always close...
by The Anfield Wrap | Dec 9, 2015 | Back Page, Podcast, TAW Player
GARETH ROBERTS was joined by Stephen Evans, Rob Gutmann and Adam Smith for this week’s BackPage with a jam-packed agenda. The lads start off with a chat about Alex Ferguson’s reported comments about Jürgen Klopp, in which he waxed lyrical about the new...
by Gareth Roberts | Dec 7, 2015 | Footie
JÜRGEN Klopp’s post-Newcastle debacle press conference made for an interesting watch for a number of reasons. First, it was clear he was absolutely fuming and in no mood for bullshit after Liverpool undid much of their recent good work in front of the watching...
by David Segar | Dec 6, 2015 | Footie
OH what it is to be a Red at the moment. The birds are singing, the sun is shining… well actually no that’s a lie, the birds are getting blown away in the wind and it’s regularly pissing down with rain, but the footie’s been pretty good. The Reds are mustard again, at...
by Rob Gutmann | Dec 5, 2015 | Footie
NEWCASTLE. Like a bizarro world Liverpool. Geordies. Like Scousers, and yet totally different. They’re a lot nearer Scotland for a start. That changes things. An old mate, a Merseysider born and bred, once worked among the North Easterners (actually he was in the jug...
by Melissa Reddy | Dec 3, 2015 | Footie
THERE was no Philippe Coutinho, Nathaniel Clyne or Mamadou Sakho. Roberto Firmino, Christian Benteke, Simon Mignolet and James Milner were not needed off the bench. There were five changes to the starting line-up that scorched Manchester City, and yet, Liverpool still...
by Gareth Roberts | Nov 30, 2015 | Footie
THE fella driving the bus told me he had sparred with Tyson Fury back in the day as I paid for my ticket to the ground yesterday. He was big enough and hard-looking enough to be believable. “I’m not having him as world champion, mate,” he said. “Just not having it.”...
by Neil Atkinson | Nov 29, 2015 | Footie
IN writing about Swansea City you are also writing about Bordeaux. Which is hugely convenient as there wasn’t a review of Bordeaux. There wasn’t a review of Bordeaux because pretty suddenly I wasn’t at all well. Aching joints, sweating profusely,...
by Karl Coppack | Nov 28, 2015 | Footie
JÜRGEN Klopp revealed this week that he has met Brendan Rodgers since taking the Liverpool job. I can’t help but wonder what Rodgers makes of everything that has happened since he was sacked following the draw at Everton in October. In recent weeks, Klopp has...
