THAT title was, quite frankly, a ludicrous thing to type after what should have been a straight forward game. But nothing is easy this season, nothing straight forward it seems. Even a home cup tie against a Championship team leaves you pulling your hair out and...
AT his pre-West Ham press conference, Brendan Rodgers suggested that he was rather irked by all the ‘experts’ voicing their opinions on the way his team plays. That is perfectly understandable. However, I am not an expert, so here’s what I think. It...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined for this weeks podcast by Mike Girling, John Gibbons, Steven Scragg and Boro supporter Daniel Gray in the aftermath of 3rd league defeat for Liverpool against West Ham. Download Issue 12 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at...
SATURDAY was a bad day to invest in a bottle of Bailey’s. It tastes like milk, but it has the anaesthetic properties of a sledgehammer. Now let’s get things clear, not all in the Liverpool FC garden is rosy, but neither is all in the garden covered in horse shit. I...
WHERE do you start after that? Well, I’ll begin with the mitigating circumstances. Sturridge is a massive, massive miss. As big a miss as the departed Suarez. Allen is out. Emre Can, though we know nothing of his aptitude, is out. Today, Skrtel was returning after a...
THIS has become, perhaps too quickly, perhaps unfairly, the biggest challenge of Brendan Rodgers’s Liverpool career. Liverpool have for the second time lost consecutive games under Brendan Rodgers. The previous two were against the sides that finished 1st and...
LONG-TIME listeners to The Anfield Wrap will know that Neil Atkinson hates talking about referees.Understandably so. With the current crop it becomes boring, frustrating and oh so repetitive. Sometimes, though, it’s a conversation that needs to be had....
WE’RE absolutely made up to be able to announce the release of issue 12 of #TAWMAG featuring a World Exclusive interview with Steven Gerrard, you can download #TAWMAG via iTunes or view it on other devices as a web app. In addition to the Gerrard...
https://twitter.com/TheAnfieldGlory/status/511972310530928640 https://twitter.com/TheAnfieldGlory/status/510859691770273792 I’M sorry, but you’ve driven me to this. I don’t want to shout but I’ve really got to say something. Something about Liverpool fans....
THREE is the magic number, no more, no less. Then again, maybe more accurately it’s 18 that is looking suspiciously like the magic number. Early days still, but the more I see of Alberto Moreno the more I like him. It was another fine performance from him last...