MATCH REVIEW: SWANSEA CITY v LIVERPOOL

MATCH REVIEW: SWANSEA CITY v LIVERPOOL

HALF time. Half time and my Lord, my hand to God, Liverpool look a mile away. As though the game has come as an enormous surprise to the lot of them. A day out at the Gower and Colin Pascoe says: “Forget this area of outstanding natural beauty lads, we kick off...
MATCH RATINGS: SWANSEA CITY v LIVERPOOL

MATCH RATINGS: SWANSEA CITY v LIVERPOOL

WELL it’s three points isn’t it? Wasn’t pretty, but a win is a win at this stage of the season. Up the Reds. SIMON MIGNOLET 7 Saved all the balls that were kicked at him. You’ll get some lads moaning about his kicking but, call me old...
JEEPERS KEEPER AND THE CASE FOR THE DEFENCE

JEEPERS KEEPER AND THE CASE FOR THE DEFENCE

BEFORE we took to the field against Swansea City I’d felt the need to state the case for the defence of the defence. Having sat through the startling, entertaining – at times bewildering – and certainly nervous laugh-provoking 4-3 win against our opponents from South...

PODCAST: ONE DOWN, ELEVEN TO GO

NEIL Atkinson, Paul Johnson, Si Steers, Ben Johnson and an opening cast of thousands… Get issue 7 of TAW’s monthly digital mag free from iTunes for iOS devices or from app.theanfieldwrap.com for everything else. iTunes DIRECT LINK TO PODCAST: ONE DOWN,...

JOE COLE’S SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION

Grim is the word. Liverpool-Swansea was grim. Unrelentingly, teeth-grindingly, appallingly grim. There was, this time, no leeway to claim the opposition were too direct or the officials blinkered. It was a simply, starkly, awful performance. The shambling figures on...