by The Anfield Wrap | Jan 4, 2016 | Podcast, TAW Player
THE COACH HOME takes a different route to normal – Dave Downie is in to talk about Everton as they approach their enormous game against Manchester City and Eliott Hackney from The Bear Pit is around to talk about Stoke City. But Neil Atkinson and John Gibbons...
by Karl Coppack | Jan 4, 2016 | Footie
THIS morning Melissa Reddy tweeted that Liverpool’s current goal return of 22 scored in 20 games is our worst ever. I frowned at this and asked her if she meant in the modern era, but she confirmed via the excellent LFCHistory.net that that figure is the lowest in our...
by Neil Atkinson | Jan 2, 2016 | Footie
QUESTIONS: What does a Liverpool goal look like? Any ideas? I’m stumped. I know what a *Daniel Sturridge* goal looks like. I even feel like I can hazard a decent enough guess at a Christian Benteke goal. He arguably mishit one from 15 yards at 1-0. But none of...
by John Gibbons | Jan 2, 2016 | Footie
LIVERPOOL have scored more than one goal in a league game once since that game at the Etihad which has proved to be the falsest of dawns. That one occasion was a home game against West Brom, a match which required a 95th-minute deflected equaliser. Fact is,...
by Rob Gutmann | Jan 1, 2016 | Footie
WEST Ham are having a very ‘West Ham-my’ season aren’t they? They’re eighth in the league. They’ve more or less stopped winning matches (one win in their last nine). They’ve had some big results and some shockers. Their season reaches its usual January...
by The Anfield Wrap | Dec 30, 2015 | Podcast, TAW Player
JOHN GIBBONS was joined in the immediate aftermath of Liverpool away victory to nil against Sam Allardyce’s Sunderland. For the second time a few days, the Red’s have managed to make a game more complicated than it should have been whilst also managing to...
by John Gibbons | Dec 30, 2015 | Footie
ANOTHER nervy finish but another Liverpool win. I’m not sure we want to become 1-0 specialists. I’m not sure it suits our abilities or my stress levels. But you’ll take it for now. Liverpool actually should have had much more. We’re getting...
by Neil Atkinson | Dec 30, 2015 | Footie
TO WHOM it may concern. (To some it may not): Went the loo on the final whistle. Went the loo on the final whistle because I appear to be suddenly attempting to drink all the beer. All of the beer. Went the loo on the final whistle and crossed Steve Graves the other...
by Rob Gutmann | Dec 29, 2015 | Footie
IT was 1998. They had torn down the century-old Roker Park and built a shiny new arena for the townsfolk of Sunderland. The desecration and rebuild was one of the first of a wave that became a tsunami as Victorian stadium after Edwardian football ground was razed to...
by John Gibbons | Dec 29, 2015 | Footie
IN the Boxing Day edition of The Independent, looking ahead to that day’s fixture against top-of-the-table Leicester City, Danny Higginbotham wrote an article asking why “the Klopp bubble had burst”. I disagreed with much of it. Firstly, was the idea...
