ALMOST four years ago to the week, I wrote a blog post on my old Well Red blog entitled ‘Why I’m sick of being a Liverpool FC fan’. I wasn’t sick of the club – after a lifetime supporting it you can’t turn that off. It was just the actual being a match-going fan bit....
NO-ONE on this site needs any help working out the permutations – we all know what the chances are and what circumstances need to prevail for Liverpool to take their chance to be League winners for the 19th time, and the first in over two decades. No-one on this site...
NEIL ATKINSON, Craig Rimmer, John Gibbons and Paul Cope reflect on the day Brendan Rodgers’ Tricky Reds seemingly punched themselves out. Get issue 10 of TAW’s monthly digital mag free from iTunes for iOS devices or from app.theanfieldwrap.com for...
THERE is a tale. Possibly an apocryphal tale but a tale nevertheless. Colonel Tom Parker, fairground huckster, shyster, illegal immigrant, lousy gambler and – quite crucially – manager to Elvis Presley walks into Graceland on the hit of Elvis’ death...
By David Segar I’VE written this a day later than I intended to because this is the first time I’ve been able to finally admit to myself that it actually happened. This Liverpool team, Brendan’s glorious bastards, it lost, actually lost, to THAT...
AS The Kop poured into the streets with leaden shoulders and a collective stooped gait, a lone voice roared above the hubbub. ‘Libpool, Libpool – top of the league. Libpool – top of the league.’ It was an act of defiance. It spoke of a heart...
by Dave Martinez ‘It appears to me that the dark has a lot more territory’ THE final scene of the phenomenal HBO drama True Detective sees Woody Harrelson’s character – Marty Hart – utter that sentence with a resigned, pessimistic tone as he looks up at...
FRESH, or is that raw, from the Tricky Reds’ first crazy loss in ages Neil Atkinson was joined by John Gibbons, Martin Fitzgerald and, making his TAW debut, Neil Scott as they discussed IT still being on for Liverpool. Don’t waste any time (you...
By Ian Salmon WE all have stories. We all know what we did today. This is mine. I wasn’t there. I tried to be there but I wasn’t. I was in The Sandon. It was the next best thing. There was alcohol. No food. Alcohol. There was the fact that I didn’t have a ticket....
SHOULD Liverpool win the title this season (as seems increasingly likely), then along with the plaudits given to the manager and the players, there will be many who also credit FSG with the turnaround in the club’s fortunes, writes JIM KEOGHAN. After all, when they...
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.
