LIVERPOOL 2-1 ARSENAL (Alonso 37, Mellor 90+2; Vieira 57) “MELLOR… My goodness. Where did that come from? The right foot of Neil Mellor… it’s probably the last kick of the game.” Scarcely believable as it is but the footage of a fresh faced Neil Mellor unleashing an...
THE genie is out of the bottle now, and he won’t be corked back in before the season’s out, writes LIAM BLAKE. Selhurst Park proved a watershed for a second successive season, if for very different reasons. Even before the surrender in the rain the odd...
Brendan, First of all, I’m a big fan. Let me put that front and centre. I think what you did with Liverpool Football Club last season was close to miraculous, and that the people who think it was all down to Luis Suarez don’t have a clue how football actually works....
A cold, cold night. A proper cold. Crisp, not dank. Supplements your bones rather than making them ache. Christ, I love Eastern Europe at this time of year. We try to come here every year. Makes winter real in a way another downpour doesn’t. Sofia was plain odd...
NEIL ATKINSON, Sean Rogers, Jim Boardman and Rob Gutmann go through Liverpool’s terrible result at Crystal Palace on this week’s TAW podcast. Download issue 13 of #TAWMAG via iTunes or at app.theanfieldwrap.com for other devices. Like what we do? Buy us a...
NOTHING is irredeemable yet. There is plenty to worry about – that goes without saying – but some of those concerns could be easily remedied with some subtle alterations. It’s time for Brendan Rodgers to turn his ethos of building a team from front to back to...
YOU can approach this a number of ways. You can point out Liverpool did alright and were unfortunate, especially with the equaliser occurring while the solid Allen was off the pitch. You can observe the misses from Lambo along with the goal. Two chances, one...
COLOUR me concerned. Everyone has their tipping point depending where on the scale of glass half-full-glass half-empty you are. That was mine. A fourth defeat in a row. Twelfth in the league. Four points from the bottom three. Has a team ever gone backwards so...
FOR more than 20 years, the scenario has been the same. As soon as Liverpool encounter problems, they look to the transfer market for a solution only to end up creating new ones. If the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting...
“HE’S one of the best full-backs in the world.” “We want to keep Glen here. There is no question about that, especially now he’s in this form. He’s 29 and we feel that he has still got good years ahead of him. “No contracts will be looked at until the...
