THIS will be low on scores, high on chat. Because lots about tonight was interesting, and very little of it has to do with what score I’m going to give Dejan Lovren out of 10. Liverpool fans were allocated 2,000 tickets tonight and a lot of them went spare....
LIVERPOOL should have scored. All game Liverpool were more dangerous but Liverpool should have scored. Liverpool should have committed to scoring. The injury-time goal: The Reds are too open. Far too open. But I’m not interested in that because Liverpool should...
FIRST things first. I’m struggling to accept it was 40 years ago today that Liverpool won the first leg of this final at Anfield. Sorry, but it’s not possible. It just isn’t. Because that means I am hurtling through middle age at a rate Mo Farah would struggle to keep...
WHEN Liverpool are through to the next round in European competition all we want to know is who are we going to get? Where next? Who next? And are they any good? Manchester United and Borussia Dortmund have been seen off. They were really tough ties but were...
WRITTEN on the day of the verdict from the latest inquest, this was first published on New Statesman’s website. IT IS important on days like today to remember that we can’t expect one correct response from the thousands of people touched by the national...
WAKING up on the first morning after the truth has finally been recognised, it would be easy to talk about the front pages of today’s editions of The Times and The S*n. It would be easy to talk about their final parting shot at the 96. But please don’t. Not today....
THIS was a strange one to ‘scout’ as it was hard to decide which game to watch. The easiest of the Spanish side’s recent fixtures to find a full 90 minutes of was the 3-0 defeat to Real Madrid last Wednesday. However, although I watched it, it was...
THROUGHOUT my childhood Hillsborough was always there — like a nettle bush prickling at my consciousness in a field of many feelings. I was five years old in April 1989. I can’t remember the afternoon of the 15th at all, the terrible events. Strangely, I...
By Dylan DaCosta NOT good enough, impact sub, biggest goal threat, season over. The perception, and perhaps reality, of Danny Ings’ Liverpool career has changed multiple times already – and the lad has only spent a few months on the pitch. In the midst of the...
IT’S an enormous day. A momentous one, and one for which I, and many of us, were not prepared. I’ve always wondered what it would feel like. I pictured celebrations in city squares, hugging strangers and downing pint after pint after pint as those responsible,...
The Anfield Wrap’s pre match show ahead of Liverpool’s trip to Villa Park to face Aston Villa in the Premier League.
Ian Ryan hosts Josh Sexton, Gregg Munikwa and Sean Rogers.
Also in the show, John Gibbons chats to Tom Fahy about Friday nights game and Neil Atkinson talks to Les Wright and Danny Smith about their charity 5-a-side fundraiser in June.
