SUNDAY’S Capital One Cup final feels a bit of a weird one. A one-off showpiece occasion, with Liverpool slight underdogs against the financial might of moneybags Manchester City. And yet, it lacks the edge of a clash with more traditional rivals; the existence...
LIVERPOOL qualify for the next round. They progress. Without progress. Repeatedly Liverpool should put the football match to bed. Repeatedly they don’t do so. Many passages of play have some glorious touches but only Milner’s early penalty offers us a...
I MISSED the first 15 minutes because six o’clock kick offs are daft. Left poor old IT Matt on the side of the street waiting for his ticket while I sent him pictures of traffic jams. Good at penalties though Jimmy Milner, isn’t he? Maybe he should imagine...
ROBERT Gutmann bids you hello, good evening and welcome as he discusses how Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool season has been going on this week’s Unwrapped. He is joined by Paul Senior and Neil Atkinson as they go through the record to date – what’s...
IN a recent interview, John Barnes referenced a culture of wanting to win matched with the culture of ensuring a win as a primary reason behind Liverpool’s golden past. It didn’t matter who the opposition were, what ground the game was at, or which competition the...
FOOTBALL is rich on million-dollar questions and here is another. Had Brendan Rodgers led Liverpool to the Premier League title in 2014, would he still be manager? Many treated Rodgers suspiciously from day one. Surely the goodwill generated would have ensued trust: a...
SINCE the appointment of Jürgen Klopp in October, it has been repeatedly said that there are too many players in this Liverpool squad that are simply not good enough, writes Joel Rabinowitz. The logic then follows that there must be a huge clear-out at Anfield this...
THE Daniel Sturridge v Fernando Torres cold stats are in Sturridge’s favour; slightly better total goals to total appearances ratio, significantly better total goals to starts ratio. But I don’t want stats. I want to slay some dragons and move on. Torres...
THIS week Danny Ings put a video of his rehabilitation process online. If you haven’t seen it yet, it opens with footage of the innocous way Danny picked up his injury with Rocky Balboa telling you how tough the world is. Rocky carries on telling you how the...
IN this week’s Big Show, Neil Atkinson is joined by John Gibbons and Rob Gutmann to talk about what has been dubbed (By Rob) as ‘The Most Important 10 Days Of Our Season’. In a show that offers up more questions than answers, mostly for the manager, the lads look to...
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.
