by NEIL SCOTT PERSPECTIVE. Something we’re always being told we must maintain a sense of, yet no-one can definitively state what it does or doesn’t entail. An unflinching optimist’s perspective will differ wildly from that of a committed misery-guts and it seems...
by DAVE MARTINEZ BRENDAN Rodgers took on the daunting task of replacing Kenny Dalglish as the manager of Liverpool Football Club 21 months ago. He inherited a squad that had finished eighth in the Premier League after chalking up just 52 points in the 2011/12 season....
NEIL ATKINSON and a cast of hundreds chat live in New York City in the aftermath of the 3-0 obliteration of Manchester United at Old Trafford. Get issue 8 of TAW’s monthly digital mag free from iTunes for iOS devices or from app.theanfieldwrap.com for everything...
AS you approach Old Trafford over a bridge that spans the Manchester Ship Canal, the Lego-like frame of the ground begins to loom large; a white support structure visible as the traffic edges closer to a stadium that was once ruined by Luftwaffe bombs. The ground was...
GEORGE Polya – Hungarian mathematical boffin of historical note – once postulated five patterns of plausibility, each of which, he claimed, told us something about the structure of belief in us humans. The starting point for these patterns was the fact...
SOMETHING’S happening here. For all of us who are used to false dawns, missing pieces of the jigsaw and good runs ending with terrible results and performances this is all becoming a bit worrying. We can’t win at Southampton. 0-3. Well alright, the wheels will...
by ALEX HESS ROME may not have been built in a day, but this Liverpool side feels like it’s sprung up overnight. It there’s one thing to be noted about the thing that we can now legitimately call a Liverpool Title Challenge then it’s how completely...
A REGULATION 3-0 away win against average and limited opposition? We can laugh, and of course we do, but if truth be told, it was a regulation 3-0 away win against an average and limited opposing manager. No team that can boast forward players of the calibre of Robin...
THAT’LL teach those bastards for building the ship canal. Samuel Greg and Daniel Adamson, your boys took one hell of a beating. I’m writing this in Legends Bar in New York after doing 90 minutes commentary. Thanks to them and NY Kopites for the maddest...
“A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home.” – Matthew 13:57 TAKE captain and club figurehead Steven Gerrard for instance. In what other city, in what other country, would a player so beautifully gifted and driven to...
