by Melissa Reddy | Nov 12, 2015 | Footie
THE club captain? Check. His deputy? Yes, him too. Liverpool’s best centre-back? On the list. Their premier forward? He tops the damn thing. Liverpool are at the summit of the “Why Us?” League with 10 injuries and the treatment room at Melwood has been...
by The Anfield Wrap | Nov 12, 2015 | Footie
BACK in July and August, on the eve of the new season, Anfield Wrap writers looked at what the future could hold for players and manager at Liverpool FC as the big kick-off loomed large. A lot has happened since then, not least the sacking of Brendan Rodgers and...
by The Anfield Wrap | Nov 11, 2015 | Footie
AFTER news this week that the percentage of home-grown players in Premier League squads has reached a new low, this week’s TAW Unwrapped show asks: What should we expect from Liverpool’s Academy? To accompany the debate on the show, The Anfield...
by The Anfield Wrap | Nov 11, 2015 | Footie
BIT of background first, writes LES JACKSON. I’m 57 years old and one of those miserable sods the TAW regulars constantly go on about who’s been going the match for years (since 1968, actually) and sits in the Lower Centenary moaning incessantly and generally being a...
by David Segar | Nov 11, 2015 | Footie
IN a new regular TAW feature we ask: “What if…”. So many things in football hinge on moments, on split-second decisions and on judgement calls, including buying and selling players and appointing certain managers (or not). To kick things off, David...
by John Gibbons | Nov 10, 2015 | Footie
EMRE Can had a bad day at the office on Sunday. You don’t need me to tell you that. He probably doesn’t need me to tell him that, either. Teeing up opposition strikers for shots in the box isn’t part of any coaching manual, anywhere, ever. It’s...
by Karl Coppack | Nov 10, 2015 | Footie
BACK in July and August, on the eve of the new season, Anfield Wrap writers looked at what the future could hold for players and manager at Liverpool FC as the big kick-off loomed large. A lot has happened since then, not least the sacking of Brendan Rodgers and...
by Rob Gutmann | Nov 10, 2015 | Footie
OH, Jürgen. What have you gone and done? “Eighty-two minutes — game over. I turned around and I felt pretty alone at this moment. We have to decide when it is over.” Rarely has a manager’s theme been warmed to so gleefully. He’s saying what loads of...
by The Anfield Wrap | Nov 9, 2015 | Footie
ON current form, if the once famous Anfield roar really was our “Twelfth Man”, he would have been ignominiously hauled off before half-time never to pull on a red jersey again, writes DAVID WEBBER. Blame for his decline is usually attributed towards the...
by Adam Smith | Nov 9, 2015 | Footie
I DON’T go to Anfield every week. I’d like to, and I put the feelers out for a season ticket at the start of the season, but to no avail. So instead I go whenever I can, getting tickets as and when. When I do go, I tend to end up in the Centenary Stand or the...
