by Rob Gutmann | Mar 18, 2017 | Footie
THE notion of loyalty gets a lot of airtime in football. Loyal fans. The loyal servant. The disloyal want-away. The loyalty of the board. The lack of loyalty towards a manager. We’ll support you evermore. You’ll never walk alone. You’re one of our...
by David Segar | Mar 16, 2017 | Footie
THE concept of ‘winning ugly’ has been on the minds, lips and keyboards of Reds for the last few weeks, largely due to a perceived inability of this current Liverpool side to do such a thing. There’s a line in the episode of The Simpsons where Moe Szyslak has had...
by Paul Cope | Mar 14, 2017 | Footie
“THERE is no truth. There is only perception.” (Gustave Flaubert) Before the Burnley post-match analysis started and the usual new statistics started coming through, if you’d asked me for my perception of this Jürgen Klopp Liverpool team I’d have told you that it’s...
by Ben Johnson | Mar 13, 2017 | Footie
I’M fairly sure I have never celebrated a goal as little as I did yesterday. When Liverpool’s equaliser went in I stood and clapped four times. Four times. One clap, two claps, three claps, four claps. No joy, no relief, no nothing. The only feeling knocking about was...
by Neil Atkinson | Mar 12, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
MARCH 12. Write it down. March 12, 2017. The last time Liverpool played poorly and won. They played so, so poorly. It is hard to put over how poorly they played. Poorly has a scale. Winning doesn’t. Football matches end and you get three points, one point or no...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 12, 2017 | Footie
TAW contributors with talking points straight from the ground after Liverpool’s 2-1 win over Burnley. Can’s Role Emre Can’s second good game in a row there, think Jürgen Klopp is getting the best out of him in that six role. @jsexton24 Game was low on...
by Andy Heaton | Mar 12, 2017 | Footie
THE grinding it out Reds, who knew, who are these people, playing shite and winning, who are we? Manchester United? Lesson worth learning, though… Simon Mignolet: 7 Doesn’t make a save, has little chance with the goal, makes a couple of proactive decisions...
by Rob Gutmann | Mar 10, 2017 | Footie
‘I WAS in a car crash — or was it the war? — well, I’ve never been quite the same’ (G.Numan, ‘Down in the Park’, 1979) Melissa Reddy of Goal.com and The Anfield Wrap posited this week that the Liverpool players were still...
by Josh Sexton | Mar 10, 2017 | Footie
AHEAD of Liverpool’s clash with Burnley at Anfield we spoke to Tyrone Marshall, Burnley FC reporter at the Lancashire Telegraph, to gauge the opposition opinion. Burnley currently sit 12th, nine points above the relegation zone, do you think fans will be pleased...
by Phil Blundell | Mar 8, 2017 | Footie
IT’S annoying, isn’t it? One game away from going a whole season undefeated against Manchester City, Chelsea, Spurs, Arsenal and Manchester United, yet in early March the most exciting thing we can think about is getting a Champions League place for next season. If we...
