by David Segar | Aug 23, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
LIVERPOOL are back in the Champions League. Where this club belongs. Anfield deserves to host it. Jürgen Klopp deserves to manage in it. These players deserve to play in it. We deserve to watch it. And it will, and it will, and he will, and they will… and we will. I...
by John Gibbons | Aug 19, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
DIDN’T see anyone calling 1-0 in the buildup. Liverpool far from scintillating, but they huffed and puffed and eventually blew the house down. Or at least dismantled it gently and politely, without causing too much disruption to the neighbours. Still unbeaten....
by David Segar | Aug 15, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
OH European nights, how I’ve missed you. The lights, the songs, the inexplicably terrible officiating that almost makes you pine for the grandiose ‘Blue Steel’ pout of Mike Dean. That and The Reds winning again. Could have done without three individual brainfarts from...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 15, 2017 | Footie
ANFIELD Wrap contributors with talking points straight from the ground as Liverpool claimed a crucial win away at Hoffenheim in the first leg of their Champions League playoff. Pre Match 7.31pm: @robbohuyton: “Loads of kecks shitting going on about tonight from Reds....
by David Segar | Aug 12, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
NEW season, same old heart attacks, fear, excitement, joy and crushing disappointment. Thanks a lot for coming back Redmen. I was just starting to become a normal human being again. That was poor from Liverpool. Whether it had anything to do with the selfish acts of...
by Andy Heaton | May 21, 2017 | Footie
WHAT a difference a few minutes can make, albeit with 15 minutes of half-time in the middle. Got to be honest, the head nearly fell off. NO, YOU FUCKING CALM DOWN. Simon Mignolet: 7 Rocking the new Sensible Soccer green goalie top — may as well have been on the...
by Andy Heaton | May 14, 2017 | Footie
WELL blimey O’Reilly, might have finished 4-0 but for the most part it was on the sharpest of knife edges. Up the smashing London FC out of their new stadium CAPITAL R Reds. Simon Mignolet: B+ Was taking notes on the hugely improved Liverpool goalkeeper, three...
by Andy Heaton | May 7, 2017 | Footie
WELL, how do you slag them off when, actually, they’ve not been that bad and the opposition have played well and rode their luck massively? If you want to blame someone, blame me, because every time I turn up Fraser Forster, who’s absolutely shite, somehow...
by David Segar | May 1, 2017 | Footie
PHEW! Liverpool’s insistence on never having a two-goal cushion is a controversial one, but if it leads to enough points to get us over the Champions League line then I’ll take another three games of not being able to sit down. Three points closer. Get in!...
by Andy Heaton | Apr 8, 2017 | Footie
THE match ratings from Liverpool’s 2-1 win over Stoke City. Simon Mignolet: 10 Seasons can hinge on moments, ours could rest on two, both of them brilliant, reflex, strong saves at crucial moments. Aside from arguably two of the best saves of his career, his...
