“WE made it clear from the first second that it will be very difficult for City.” Park the scoreline for a second. Wait a minute with the goals. Just hold off on the fact it could have been more. Breathe in the dominance. Stretch in the dominance. Shake...
YOU trudge out of Wembley. You have a face on. The face on. The face of yours that your loved ones know. It’s the football. It was more than that though, you know. It was the feeling you were part of an eternally losing battle. Against the system. Against the...
THE players and manager deserve great credit to go from Sunday to that. Perhaps the Manchester City players, just like their supporters, failed to turn up. But they are still big and good and need beating — and how they were beaten. The tone was actually set by...
EVENING, everyone. Gareth and Neil have asked me to write a regular column after each match because they probably thought I wasn’t doing enough to earn the “contributes to @theanfieldwrap” line in my Twitter bio. Fair enough, I suppose. The column...
WHERE to start. The match at Wembley has destroyed my week and my life. The pain is too much to bear. I rarely go out these days. I can’t communicate with my family and friends are becoming fading memories. This is all since Sunday tea-time. And then I realise there’s...
I DON’T know about you but I had a great day out. One of them where everything comes off. Our minibus turned up when it was supposed to, the driver wasn’t a Bluenose and he was sound (well in, Paul). We got to London without hitting any traffic, found a...
I LOOK across on 65 minutes or so and Raffy Gutmann, aged six, at his first final, is in tears; tears rolling down his cheeks. He’s in tears and really it isn’t unreasonable. I have no solace to offer. None whatsoever. If I was six years old I would be...
THE easiest way to win a cup final is to be the better team. Even if you can’t be the better team on the pitch in the 90 or 120 minutes, you can have the better players to win a shoot-out. Despite what people tell you about it being a lottery. Manchester City...
AHEAD of Liverpool’s trip to Wembley to play Manchester City in the Capital One Cup we wondered what Liverpool needed to do to bring the trophy back to Merseyside. So we asked a fella who won two. Gerard Houllier was manager of Liverpool when we won the League...
ON Friday 26th February John Gibbons and Neil Atkinson bring you the day’s LFC news. There has been a Europa League draw and Liverpool got Manchester United. We’re coming round to it. Big games are great. Jurgen Klopp was asked about it too. He had a press...
On this week’s Anfield Wrap, we discuss recruitment, the links to Diomande, Curtis Jones’ future, and more…
Also in the show, John Gibbons is joined by John Olyott from Fire Fit to talk about the Toxteth based youth and community centre’s latest initiatives.Ian Ryan is joined by Jay McKenna and Kieran Molyneux.
