by Rob Gutmann | Mar 31, 2017 | Footie
LIVERPOOL FC great Alan Hansen once said that he hated the derby. I hate the derby. We should hang out more, Alan. I can tell you why I hate the prospect of the game itself — the ratcheting up of tension, the strain of watching a match in which you fear the...
by Phil Blundell | Mar 22, 2017 | Footie
YOU would think that Sunday’s result sealed a full season undefeated against the other members of the Premier League’s top six for the 2016-17 season. I write that slightly tentatively as Everton appear to be finishing reasonably strongly while Arsenal are imploding...
by Neil Atkinson | Mar 20, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
WATCHING it back. Watching it back. Overwhelmed and overwhelming. Ninety tough, tough minutes. Even knowing the end, the twists and turns take your breath away. What a game of football. What a joy to be alive. Manchester City and Liverpool duked it out at the Etihad...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 19, 2017 | Footie
TAW contributors with talking points straight from the ground as Liverpool drew 1-1 with Manchester City. Heart And Fight Thought the Reds were fantastic there, to be honest — loads of heart and fight, but quality too. City know they’ve been in a game...
by Josh Sexton | Mar 19, 2017 | Footie
HARD to know for sure having not seen any replays of anything, but thought we genuinely played really well there. Such fine margins in games like that, chances missed there that would keep players up at night. Simon Mignolet: 6 Didn’t really have loads to do....
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...
