by Martin Fitzgerald | Mar 2, 2016 | Footie
EVENING, everyone. Gareth and Neil have asked me to write a regular column after each match because they probably thought I wasn’t doing enough to earn the “contributes to @theanfieldwrap” line in my Twitter bio. Fair enough, I suppose. The column...
by Rob Gutmann | Mar 1, 2016 | Footie
WHERE to start. The match at Wembley has destroyed my week and my life. The pain is too much to bear. I rarely go out these days. I can’t communicate with my family and friends are becoming fading memories. This is all since Sunday tea-time. And then I realise there’s...
by John Gibbons | Mar 1, 2016 | Footie
ONE of the things lamented as lost from the game of football is the bond between players and fans. Supporters talk about it, old players too. We used to be the same and now we are not. This is mainly put down to money. How can you identify with anyone who earns more...
by Ben Johnson | Feb 29, 2016 | Footie
I DON’T know about you but I had a great day out. One of them where everything comes off. Our minibus turned up when it was supposed to, the driver wasn’t a Bluenose and he was sound (well in, Paul). We got to London without hitting any traffic, found a...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 29, 2016 | Podcast, TAW Player
NEIL ATKINSON is joined post Cup Final defeat by John Gibbons, Paul Senior and Gareth Roberts to pick the bones of Manchester City’s win over The Reds for this week’s free podcast. Neil keeps trying to go front to back from Liverpool’s first team but...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 28, 2016 | Podcast, TAW Player
NEIL ATKINSON is joined by Rob Gutmann in the aftermath of Liverpool’s League Cup Final defeat to Manchester City on...
by Neil Atkinson | Feb 28, 2016 | Footie
I LOOK across on 65 minutes or so and Raffy Gutmann, aged six, at his first final, is in tears; tears rolling down his cheeks. He’s in tears and really it isn’t unreasonable. I have no solace to offer. None whatsoever. If I was six years old I would be...
by John Gibbons | Feb 28, 2016 | Footie
THE easiest way to win a cup final is to be the better team. Even if you can’t be the better team on the pitch in the 90 or 120 minutes, you can have the better players to win a shoot-out. Despite what people tell you about it being a lottery. Manchester City...
by Rob Gutmann | Feb 27, 2016 | Footie
THERE are moments when we doubt Wembley. Like when they needlessly play semi-finals there. Like when we sense the smugness in its association with a national side we feel little affinity with. In these moments, Wembley, you seem so very far away. Then there’s the...
by Rob Gutmann | Feb 26, 2016 | Footie
THESE are the moments. Let’s not deny it to ourselves. Why the game got us. Why we became locked into its ways and wiles. We’re always in it for the prizes. Scaling peaks is what sport is all about. Don’t decry any summit. A challenge is a challenge. We have risen to...
