“I’m pretty certain he’s the best footballer Dean Court – for sponsorship purposes now the Goldsands Ground – has ever seen. Literally – the oft-abused ‘literally’ – the best footballer that has ever played on this...
TWO thoughts are spinning around my head about Liverpool’s slow start. One the more positive, the other my inbuilt negativity, born from years of watching Liverpool get so close, yet remain so far. The positive looks to last season. We didn’t start well....
NEIL ATKINSON is joined by Mike Nevin, Steve Graves and Rob Gutmann to discuss Gerrard’s big move, Jordan’s big bollocking and a big, big three points Download Issue 12 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at app.theanfieldwrap.com for other devices. Like what we...
A WIN is a win? Sometimes a win is a win and nothing more can be gleaned from it. Sometimes it’s worth a little bit more than that – even when it’s the type of performance that usually provokes the response that “a win is a win”. Casablanca. 1942. Starring Dirk Bogart...
NOBODY likes to admit they’re wrong do they? So hard nosed and infallible are people’s opinions on football – and I am of course generalising here – that perhaps many are afraid such an admission will destroy their reputation and credibility as a voice,...
“PRESSURE is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.” I don’t quote Shankly...
ANDY HEATON, stepping in for Neil Atkinson, was joined by Rob Gutmann, Gareth Roberts and Kent Riley after another defeat and look towards hopefully a return to winning ways against West Brom at the weekend Download Issue 12 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at...
FINISHING second last season meant Liverpool were back in the Champions League. We’d been out of it five years and now we were back. That great tournament that makes everything else seem a bit rubbish. It doesn’t really sink in then though. Especially when...
WITH the sun beaming on a hot August day in 2012, the future looked bright as Brendan Rodgers took charge of his first Premier League game as Liverpool manager against West Bromwich Albion, writes MATT KENNY. Much of the pre-season talk had focused on how quickly...
CATCHING one like that so late in a game always reminds me of that punch Herol ‘Bomber’ Graham took against Julian Jackson, in a WBA World Middleweight Title fight in Benalmadena, late 1990. The one where he was spark out before he hit the floor totally planked out,...
Liverpool kick off their 26/27 Champions League stage campaign at Anfield to face Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid, a team who head into the in a period of on and off the pitch turbulence, can the Reds take advantage and make a positive start on Wednesday night.
Ian Ryan is joined by Kieran Molyneux, Keifer MacDonald and Phil Blundell
Also in the show, Neil Atkinson chats to Miguel Periera about Atletico Madrid.