by Neil Atkinson | Mar 20, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
WATCHING it back. Watching it back. Overwhelmed and overwhelming. Ninety tough, tough minutes. Even knowing the end, the twists and turns take your breath away. What a game of football. What a joy to be alive. Manchester City and Liverpool duked it out at the Etihad...
by Ben Johnson | Mar 20, 2017 | Footie
WHAT a game. What a game of utterly mad, breathless, end to end, 100 mile an hour, toss of a coin, oh fuck it toss it again football that was. You often hear the phrase ‘that was a real advertisement for the Premier League’ getting lashed about all over the show and I...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 19, 2017 | Footie
TAW contributors with talking points straight from the ground as Liverpool drew 1-1 with Manchester City. Heart And Fight Thought the Reds were fantastic there, to be honest — loads of heart and fight, but quality too. City know they’ve been in a game...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 19, 2017 | Podcast, Post-Match Show, TAW Player
Neil Atkinson is joined by Paul Cope and Steve Graves to talk about the quality of Liverpool’s 1-1 draw with Manchester City. What a game – the Reds got a valuable point and stopped Manchester City picking up all three today at the Etihad. – Wrap at...
by Josh Sexton | Mar 19, 2017 | Footie
HARD to know for sure having not seen any replays of anything, but thought we genuinely played really well there. Such fine margins in games like that, chances missed there that would keep players up at night. Simon Mignolet: 6 Didn’t really have loads to do....
by Rob Gutmann | Mar 18, 2017 | Footie
THE notion of loyalty gets a lot of airtime in football. Loyal fans. The loyal servant. The disloyal want-away. The loyalty of the board. The lack of loyalty towards a manager. We’ll support you evermore. You’ll never walk alone. You’re one of our...
by Dan Morgan | Mar 17, 2017 | Footie
SATURDAY October 16, 2004 will live eternally in my memory. It was probably my most traumatic, rewarding experience watching Liverpool FC, Istanbul aside. Liverpool travelled to Fulham in the Premier League that day in the infancy of Rafa Benitez’s tenure. I was going...
by Josh Sexton | Mar 17, 2017 | LFC News
XABI Alonso has revealed how he reacted to being told he would be allowed to leave Liverpool if the right offer came in. The Spaniard, who announced last week that he will hang up his boots at the end of the season, left Anfield for Real Madrid in the summer of 2009...
by Michael Nevin | Mar 17, 2017 | Footie
EMRE Can’s Burnley winner last week not only consolidated Liverpool’s Champions League ambitions but also stuck a metaphorical two fingers up at sections of the home crowd. As he slid triumphantly in front of The Kop, there was as much anger and pent up...
by David Segar | Mar 16, 2017 | Footie
THE concept of ‘winning ugly’ has been on the minds, lips and keyboards of Reds for the last few weeks, largely due to a perceived inability of this current Liverpool side to do such a thing. There’s a line in the episode of The Simpsons where Moe Szyslak has had...
