STOKE at home. Nothing to play for. Only Stoke at home. Nothing to play for. Might as well not go. When I was 12, I went to my first match at Anfield. It was a League Cup game on a midweek night against Portsmouth. They were then, as now, mired somewhere in football’s...
TONIGHT at Anfield we watched two of the best 20 teams in Europe go head to head. Being honest, being frank, we probably watched two of the sides that would rank fifth to 20th in Europe go head to head. Bayern, Real and Barca a solar system away; Juventus and Atletico...
A DRAW was probably a fair result. Tottenham were impressive, the best team to come to Anfield this year by a fair stretch. Yet, despite some careless passing, we actually found it easier to create chances against them than many other teams this year. Because they...
JOHN Gibbons was joined for a post-Tottenham Hotspur Pink by Ian Salmon, Sean Neagle and Craig Hannan. Liverpool (4-4-1-1): Mignolet; Clyne, Lovren, Sakho, Moreno; Milner (Ibe 90), Henderson, Can, Coutinho; Lallana (Allen 82), Sturridge (Origi 72). Substitutes: Ward,...
EVENING everyone, Here’s five thoughts on the football match that’s just happened. 1) The Anfield Wrap’s Rob Gutmann is on holiday My normal pre-match routine is to spend about an hour listening to Rob talk about The Human League while his children...
BEING brutally honest with you I’m not entirely sure where to start with that one. Liverpool were simply so dominant but every change made Liverpool weaker while every change made Southampton stronger. Normally you walk out of away grounds and just keep your...
HOW annoying. At half-time we are all laughing and joking and picturing Flanno lifting the Premier League trophy in 2017. At full time we’ve thrown it away, a limp second-half performance that only looked like finishing one way after The Saints equalised. For...
AFTERNOON, everyone. I’ve got loads of thoughts on Southampton v Liverpool but here are five that don’t involve me setting fire to myself. 1) Southampton is so far away it’s basically in the sea. Someone told me my remit here is to convey the...
AWAY games actually start two or three weeks before when you decide whether you are going or not. Tickets need buying, transport needs arranging and, in some cases, passes are needed from home. For most, the whole thing is a complex decision-making process based on...
I HAD a soft spot for Crystal Palace when I was eight. I quite liked them. To me they had appeared out of nowhere — a magical, mystical club, named after the Wizard of Oz’s house. I had never heard of them before that season but here they were playing the Reds...
