by Adam Smith | Mar 16, 2017 | Footie
IN my column last week I asked whether we’re maybe a little bit too critical of our own players. My point was actually about the fact that we don’t give opposition players or teams enough credit for what they do to thwart us, but even so there’s an irony in the fact...
by Paul Cope | Mar 14, 2017 | Footie
“THERE is no truth. There is only perception.” (Gustave Flaubert) Before the Burnley post-match analysis started and the usual new statistics started coming through, if you’d asked me for my perception of this Jürgen Klopp Liverpool team I’d have told you that it’s...
by Gareth Roberts | Mar 10, 2017 | Footie
IT’S the game everyone’s been talking about this week. A “did you see it last night?” moment in work. Barcelona’s unlikely comeback in Europe had grown men leaping around TV studios like overwhelmed children unwrapping the present of their dreams on Christmas Day...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 8, 2017 | Footie
DAVID TULLY “QUALIFYING for the Champions League would be a big success, 100 per cent. Qualifying for the Europa League, I’m not sure that I could sell it as success. But it would be okay. It would be a step in the right direction.” Jürgen Klopp’s right, of...
by Paul Cope | Mar 7, 2017 | Footie
THE debates are raging again about Emre Can. As soon as you read that you’ll instantly know what you think of him. Your unconscious mind will access the ‘Emre Can File’ and remind your conscious mind of what you’ve decided following a few years of watching this...
by Adam Melia | Mar 7, 2017 | Footie
CARDS on the table, I don’t rate Fenway Sports Group. They’ve been in my Si Mignolet category for a while now, where it’s miles too late for the occasional good thing they do to make an impact on the memory bank of previous gaffes, howlers, and...
by Rob Gutmann | Mar 7, 2017 | Footie
THE reporting of Liverpool’s renewed interest in Mario Gotze (by the unimpeachable Melissa Reddy) was roundly greeted with a consensus of eye rolling and head shaking by the Liverpool FC nation. Why do we want he who didn’t want us, and has turned out to be a dreadful...
by Michael Nevin | Mar 3, 2017 | Footie
IT becomes increasingly difficult to make sense of Liverpool’s season as the lurch continues from title contenders at New Year to current outsiders for a spot in the top four. The commonly held current consensus is that the Reds can beat the good teams and not the...
by Joel Rabinowitz | Mar 1, 2017 | Footie
IN the wake of Liverpool’s 4-0 hammering of Barcelona at Wembley in pre-season, I wrote a piece for The Anfield Wrap about Jürgen Klopp’s tactical blueprint for the new season and how this 4-3-3 shape with a fluid, interchanging front three and a dynamic, energetic...
by Dan Morgan | Mar 1, 2017 | Footie
“WE are all trying to improve. Improvement sometimes means to change something; sometimes it just means to wait.” Jürgen Klopp has spoken a lot about young players and their development during his time as Liverpool manager. The quote above from October 2016 when...
