by Rob Gutmann | Oct 20, 2017 | Footie
CONFIDENCE is a funny thing, isn’t it? We’ve just turned a Slovenian team over by seven goals and now everything seems possible again. Even the bony-arsed cynics can start to use their imaginations again a bit now. Anybody saying The Reds can’t go to Wembley and knock...
by Andy Heaton | Oct 14, 2017 | Footie
FOR all the pre-match posturing, Jose Mourinho once again showed that when the chips are down he’s the game’s biggest shithouse. The Manchester United manager had been at pains all week to tell anyone who shoved a microphone in his face that today’s fixture was...
by Neil Atkinson | Oct 14, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
I’D have taken it. Before a ball was kicked I would have taken it. Both the manner of it and the eventual result. I’m not going to be mad about the fact that your Manchester United seemingly offered it. That is their business, not mine, and they will be...
by David Segar | Oct 14, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
YET again we are frustrated by the supposed best manager in world football, who turns up at Anfield and uses the same game plan as Derek Adams of Plymouth Argyle did last January. Actually if Adams had spent £400million on his squad maybe even he’d have been...
by The Anfield Wrap | Oct 14, 2017 | Footie
JOSE Mourinho set out his stall as most anticipated he would, and while Liverpool failed to break them down it wasn’t as dispiriting as the results we’ve seen in previous weeks. Here are Anfield Wrap contributors with talking points straight from the...
by Josh Sexton | Oct 13, 2017 | Footie
THE biggest game of the season is upon us. That is an opinion, not a fact. Some, particularly those who have had what some would call the displeasure of growing up around Evertonians, will disagree — or agree that it may be classed as bigger but that doesn’t...
by Michael Nevin | Oct 13, 2017 | Footie
AM I going a bit soft, I thought this week, as I found myself glued, gushingly sympathetic and admiring of the life of Sir Bobby Charlton as brilliantly portrayed by the BBC? While watching, even my wife observed, “It’s a bit too United for me”, adding to her concerns...
by Rob Gutmann | Oct 12, 2017 | Footie
I’VE properly parked Liverpool FC for the past fortnight. The usually dreaded international break has provided welcome respite this time. It all feels a bit unnecessarily cruel at the moment and I’m just not enjoying it at all. Emerging from this mini hibernation...
by Paul Cope | Oct 11, 2017 | Footie
RIVALRY, according to the Oxford English dictionary, is defined as “competition for the same objective or for superiority in the same field”. The example it gives for the use of the word in context is “‘there always has been intense rivalry between the clubs”. Quite...
by Gareth Roberts | Oct 11, 2017 | Footie
IT’S usually a derogatory term used to shame the football fan whose support wanes when team performances do – the self-proclaimed fanatic that is not quite so keen when the going gets tough. At level eight of English football though, the term “fair weather fan” is...
