by Neil Atkinson | Feb 20, 2017 | Footie
THERE has been something distorting about what Chelsea have done so far this season. Something which has damaged perceptions across the division, especially within the other sides in the top six. The rate they have notched points up has left everyone else searching...
by Ian Salmon | Feb 20, 2017 | Footie
ON Monday February 13, I received an email from Neil Atkinson; could I do the second ever recording of the new AFQ Football podcast at 5pm that night? Obviously I said yes, I’ll say yes to anything that sounds like it’s going to be interesting and enjoyable. And then...
by John Gibbons | Feb 14, 2017 | Footie
I woke up at 7.50am on Saturday. Annoying that, isn’t it? You moan about getting up early all week for work and then you wake up on a Saturday at the same time anyway. Now I know what you might be thinking. “7.50am isn’t early, I’m up at 6am...
by David Segar | Feb 14, 2017 | Footie
THIS is one of those articles that will definitely be retweeted back to me when Liverpool finish sixth. There, I’ve acknowledged the fact. That should take care of any risk of jinx… but hang on, by acknowledging it does it now become re-jinxed? Can you even re-jinx...
by Paul Cope | Feb 14, 2017 | Footie
“THE team has a bad attitude.” The team loses against a so-called lesser side and the so-called pundits are queueing up to say that the defeat was caused by the “team” having a bad attitude. The same team then draws with the league leaders, coming very close to...
by Neil Atkinson | Feb 11, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
A FOOTBALL match, a tale of two teams, profoundly decided by one half. This isn’t to say the second half isn’t important. This isn’t to undo those efforts. Those necessary efforts. This isn’t to act like all that running round was irrelevant....
by Andy Heaton | Feb 11, 2017 | Footie
BOSS that. Funny how you know a game is likely to pan out after 10 minutes, isn’t it? Simon Mignolet: 8 Massive stop one v one when it mattered, needs to keep backing himself. Nathaniel Clyne: 7 Back to his overlapping best, looked far more dangerous than of...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 11, 2017 | Footie
AHEAD of Liverpool’s clash with Tottenham at Anfield, TAW contributors look back on eight times the Reds were too hot for Spurs. Liverpool 6 Tottenham Hotspur 2 – May 8, 1993 THE 6-2 thrashing of Spurs in May 1993 was memorable for more than being the day...
by Josh Sexton | Feb 10, 2017 | Footie
AHEAD of Liverpool’s clash with Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield, we spoke to Spurs blogger CHRIS MILLER to get the latest on the Reds’ upcoming opponents. Firstly, Spurs come into this game having not lost since early December, what have you made of the...
by Rob Gutmann | Feb 10, 2017 | Footie
I NEVER tire of being surprised at myself for being surprised by the changing of the seasons. Like a dog with no real sense of itself or the past. Oh look, how wild is that wind? How hot is that sun. How brown are those falling leaves? Aren’t these showers...
