GOODISON is something of a guilty pleasure for me. I don’t like to say it out loud too often but it’s a ground with a wonderful feel to it. I like the way it smells. That’s the timber not the Blues. It’s a living museum. One of the last links to another age of...
THE Reds. The Tricky Reds. You arrive wondering where a goal will come from and they score in a minute. You then think they’ll settle down and play and they refuse. At 2-0 and 3-1 up we should have been able to relax, but our defence had other ideas. Well you...
SHALL we just talk about Lucas Leiva? Or just about Daniel Sturridge? Or do we need to address the big holes? For big holes there were. Too many of them too often again. Liverpool are trying to do clever things — Emre Can as a split defender midfielder. Philippe...
THIS may turn into a bit of a rant. Not a calmly-delivered list of facts; a proper rant, which might send Rafa’s calmly-delivered FACTS cart-wheeling firmly back into 2009. Let’s see how long I can stay calm. On the ITV commentary in Istanbul, as Liverpool walked out...
IT was always going to be this way. That we would end up living in this half light. There was a moment , after the quake of the 6-1 lashing at Stoke in May. After the swell, and in the after-shock, when a decision might have been taken. It would have been an emotive...
SUNDAY 20th, 1646: Three quick peeps from the referee call time on a first half Liverpool have shaded. The sort of first half where, if a team has been playing well for a few weeks, you settle down for half time expecting the job to be done second half. Liverpool...
A FRUSTRATING afternoon. It was good to see us at least creating chances, but still not enough of them and certainly not enough going in the net. Norwich are fortunate to leave with a point, but they could have won all three. Which, if you consider they showed little...
BLACKPOOL, Wigan, West Brom, Aston Villa, Crystal Palace. No, not a list of likely relegation candidates, writes CRAIG RIMMER, nor the UK’s least desirable holiday destinations 2015, but an ever-growing group of also-rans who came (under little expectation), saw...
IT’S a good time for Norwich City to be facing Liverpool. It’s a good time for Liverpool to be facing Norwich City. Looks like we’re all guaranteed a good time. For them it’s an ‘anything is a bonus’ game, and for us it’s a ‘nothing achieved is...
I FIRST remember all this back in the Comprehensive days. The scrunched-up face and scowl from a kid who was too cool for school: “You’re an armchair, lad.” At the time, aged about 13, I was. Violins out, but I’ve never been to a match with my...
The Anfield Wrap’s free podcast, after Liverpool clinched a last minute winner against Newcastle at St James Park.John Gibbons hosts Stu Wright, Mo Stewart and Ian Ryan…Also in the show,
Neil speaks to playwright Sean McLoughlin and Artistic Director of Tip Tray Theatre Evan Byrne about Sean’s new production ‘I Am Steven Gerrard’.
