by Phil Blundell | Oct 19, 2016 | Footie
I WAS travelling up to Liverpool on Monday afternoon and remembered I had to write a piece for Wednesday. So I made some notes of things I could talk about, broadly surrounding that match. Unfortunately for me, Jose Mourinho basically created a situation whereby there...
by David Segar | Oct 19, 2016 | Footie
IT was inevitable really, wasn’t it? How many times have Sky Sports built up to a big game by labelling it the most important human occurrence since the Renaissance, or Anthony Joshua’s last fight, only for it to peter out into a damp squib? ‘Red Monday’ was dull. It...
by John Gibbons | Oct 18, 2016 | Footie
MONDAY night’s are no time for football. I spent the weekend decorating. Decorating! And people ask why I watch so much football. If that’s the alternative I’ll swap a scraper for a rattle and go to the match until I’m 100. It does liven up the...
by The Anfield Wrap | Oct 18, 2016 | Footie
TAW contributors with 10 talking points from Liverpool’s 0-0 Premier League draw with Manchester United at Anfield. 1. Loris Low On Confidence? We are going to be arguing about that goalkeeper for quite a while, I think. @Danny_Austin14. The ‘keeper is...
by Neil Atkinson | Oct 18, 2016 | Footie, Match Review
THE worst part about the point is that it feels like Jose Mourinho’s point. I like him. I know you don’t and I know I am not supposed to, but I loved the substitution of Ashley Young at the end of the game. It was needle pure and simple and if caps...
by Andy Heaton | Oct 17, 2016 | Footie
Beat the shite and win the league, well on today’s showing we might struggle. One Phil Coutinho shot aside, we didn’t look like we could break the massed rank of blue-shirted bellends to get a potentially huge three points. Anyway, the ratings –...
by Ben Johnson | Oct 17, 2016 | Footie
IT seems like months since we were last blessed with the presence of the Reds. It has been 16 days. Sixteen long days to ruminate, to worry about Manchester United, worry about Jose Mourinho, worry about Mourinho’s alehouse United, worry about the ale house, worry...
by Josh Sexton | Oct 14, 2016 | Footie
LIVERPOOL welcome Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United on Monday night, in what is promising to be a big occasion under the floodlights at Anfield. We spoke to Ste Armstrong from fanzine United We Stand to get his thoughts ahead of the game. Firstly, tell us a bit...
by Rob Gutmann | Oct 14, 2016 | Footie
THERE’S this line in a Lennon track – ‘Life is something that happens to you while you’re busy making plans’ – that is too often apposite. Usually in an entirely dispiriting and negative way. Another ‘meme’ in a similar vein would be the adage – ‘the...
by Josh Sexton | Oct 13, 2016 | Footie
LIVERPOOL welcome bitter rivals Manchester United to Anfield on Monday evening, looking to maintain a five-game unbeaten spell in the league. United, on the other hand, have only won two of their last five in the league, though they will be buoyed by their positive...
