I MIGHT be guilty of over-doing the Ray Kennedy stuff. There will be mates of mine who are cackling at that sentence. Might be? I’ll come clean. I’m more than guilty. I never shut up about him. Growing up, Ray was my favourite player. Kenny came close and...
By Joe Simpson “Put aside the Ranger. Become who you were born to be.” Lord Elrond, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King WHEN people ask me what I am most looking forward to this season, it isn’t the new signings, it isn’t the continued development of the...
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I TRY not to go on Facebook too much these days. At this precise moment, it’s to avoid the aggressively upbeat “Three Positives for Three Days” thing, which everyone seems to be getting on board with (It’s great that you feel blessed because...
I’M channelling Wyclef Jean’s Gone Till November. More precisely, Wyclef Jean’s Gone Till November as performed in a karaoke bar somewhere on the Greek island of Kos – a good decade and a half or so ago – by a monotone/tone deaf Scandinavian surfer dude. It was...
Could Liverpool be this year's Spurs ? Sold top player – lot of new ones to bed in. It's at least a valid question. — Ian Darke (@IanDarke) July 21, 2014 https://twitter.com/jackson1509/status/491841208919281664 Liverpool doing what Spurs did last...
AND SO Steven Gerrard has announced his retirement from international football 14 years after making his debut v Ukraine in 2000. Although many Liverpool fans will be thankful if it means squeezing a few more years out of his legs to play for the Reds, I think the...
AND so, at last, he’s gone. So too are the biting scandals, the racism debacle, the laborious diving debates and everything else that came with him. The Luis Suarez circus has moved on to Catalonia and he is now officially FC Barcelona’s ‘problem’. So what are we left...
“LUIS SUAREZ is a c*** – but he’s our c***.” I said that to an audience of 900 Liverpool fans when The Anfield Wrap put on a live show at the Hilton Hotel in Melbourne 12 months ago. Back then, Suarez was trying to engineer his way out of the club. Arsenal had put in...
WITH all signs pointing to a Liverpool sans Luis Suarez next season, the tip-tapping of keyboards has been audible around the globe. I felt left out, so here’s my 7.5billion penneth on the matter. This is a headache Brendan Rodgers could have done without. When Suarez...
The Anfield Wrap’s first live show of the season from our brand new studio where we discuss, among other things, Andoni’s Iraola’s comments about the depth of his Liverpool squad, as well as fresh links to Yankuba Minteh, before looking ahead to the Reds trip to Newcastle on Sunday.
