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...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined by John Gibbons, James McKenna and Mike Girling in the wake of Liverpool Football Club’s goalless draw at Tottenham Hotspur. A decent point and something to build on or did a clean sheet paper over the cracks a little? Can Liverpool...
IN A North London car park Neil Atkinson sits with Paul Senior, Rob Gutmann and Steve Graves to discuss Jürgen Klopp’s first game in charge of the mighty Reds. All sorts of bits and pieces get addressed. Is everyone overjoyed? Well it finished nil nil. Only so...
OH! wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north/With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red? I first read these lines (from Macaulay’s The Battle of Naseby) in 1978 in the first book I’d ever bought about Liverpool Football Club’s history. The...
BRENDAN RODGERS likes to talk. He loves reciting a story with a happy ending. Especially if he stars in it. It’s safe to say that right now the Liverpool manager has built up plenty of goodwill with the club’s fanbase and the media at large. He deserves it. He’s done...
BIG BEN struck 11, the transfer window ‘slammed’ shut. Jim White made a noise that sounded like he enjoys deadline day a little too much. Reporters were getting it in the ear, so to speak, and Liverpool ended the day without any new players coming through...
OPTIONS. Let’s talk options. Options and tactics. Options all over the place, tactics like you wouldn’t believe. Let’s talk about the fact that Liverpool can make three substitutions against a team who are supposedly, according to Brad Friedel on...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined on this week’s podcast by Chris Maguire, Steve Graves and Mike Nevin in the happy afterglow of another away thumping of Tottenham. Download Issue 11 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at app.theanfieldwrap.com for other devices. Like what we...
“Ambassador, with these Rocher you are really spoiling us!” FERRERO Rocher football – this at times was Ferrero Rocher football. Brendan Rodgers is ‘the ambassador’ and when we play like we did a White Hart Lane then he is indeed “spoiling us”. Daniel Sturridge....
PAUL COPE is insistent. Put it in context. Put this in context. So let’s put it in context. A side that has just lost at Manchester City, has never played this back four before, three of whom are new signings, giving Balotelli his debut have just dominated the...
