NOBODY likes to admit they’re wrong do they? So hard nosed and infallible are people’s opinions on football – and I am of course generalising here – that perhaps many are afraid such an admission will destroy their reputation and credibility as a voice,...
“PRESSURE is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.” I don’t quote Shankly...
ANDY HEATON, stepping in for Neil Atkinson, was joined by Rob Gutmann, Gareth Roberts and Kent Riley after another defeat and look towards hopefully a return to winning ways against West Brom at the weekend Download Issue 12 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at...
FINISHING second last season meant Liverpool were back in the Champions League. We’d been out of it five years and now we were back. That great tournament that makes everything else seem a bit rubbish. It doesn’t really sink in then though. Especially when...
WITH the sun beaming on a hot August day in 2012, the future looked bright as Brendan Rodgers took charge of his first Premier League game as Liverpool manager against West Bromwich Albion, writes MATT KENNY. Much of the pre-season talk had focused on how quickly...
By David Preece CRITICISMS are to goalkeepers what cricket balls are to batsmen. You’re constantly fending them off. Sometimes the criticisms hit hard and leave a bruise on your confidence that can take a while to disperse, only massaged away by a combination of...
CATCHING one like that so late in a game always reminds me of that punch Herol ‘Bomber’ Graham took against Julian Jackson, in a WBA World Middleweight Title fight in Benalmadena, late 1990. The one where he was spark out before he hit the floor totally planked out,...
TWO dropped. Two dropped. Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise. The equaliser is a magnificent strike from a player whose underrated ability and commitment to the cause means he deserves a moment to dine out on. This is that moment. But that moment doesn’t...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined by John Gibbons, David Downie, Andy Heaton and ex Liverpool left back Stephen Warnock on the eve of the first Derby of the season Download Issue 12 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at app.theanfieldwrap.com for other devices. Like what we do? Buy...
LOOK, we should probably just view this as another version of mental and embrace it accordingly. We wanted the madness, we wanted the chaos, we possibly could have been a little more specific on exactly what it was we were expecting. We wanted all that glory from the...
