A PLANNED live Q&A with Liverpool FC chief executive Ian Ayre scheduled for 6pm this evening has been cancelled with just four-and-a-half hours to spare after Saturday’s walk-out protest against increased ticket prices was supported by an estimated 15,000...
IF you’ve ever read an article I’ve written for the Anfield Wrap, you’ll know they are rare and tend only to appear when I have something to say that I have to get out of my head in order to get some sleep, writes PAUL COPE. Well,...
IT is surprising how often my thoughts and random daydreams always come back to Sam Allardyce and his life. I can’t help it. I have tried to scratch him from my mind but it’s no good. I think about whether he can sing and, if so, whether he sings around the...
WHEN I think about Liverpool Football Club at the moment I can’t make my mind up whether my overwhelming feeling is one of sadness or disillusionment. On the pitch things aren’t going great, that goes without saying. But it’s the off-field issues that are causing me...
“I WERE looking at him all game and he were quite far off his line so as soon as Riyad’s played it through and it’s bounced quite high and I’ve got no support, I’ve just took me chance and luckily it’s gone over the top of...
I’M a cynic by nature. People ask if I am really an old man. But it’s just a natural curiosity about things — wondering why someone might be doing something, asking questions why. I have been like this about going the match and about Liverpool FC in the past. My...
“JAYSUS. Is that a nipple?” As I’m trying to work out whether we can get away with “nipple” on the BBC, I nod at the man I’ve thrust a microphone under the nose of, writes LAURA BROWN. Yes, I explain, it’s an artwork by Yoko Ono called My Mommy is Beautiful,...
THE chief executive of Liverpool Football Club, speaking to anyone, anywhere, ever in public in the internet age is news. It will be picked up by someone, somewhere and arrive back on the doorstep, neatly packaged in soundbites, ready to digest. Or, in the case of Ian...
LOADS have done it — given up going the match. Temporarily or permanently, whether it’s the rise in ticket prices, the ‘match-day experience’ or just falling out of love with it all, the make up of the Anfield crowd has changed as long-term...
I WENT to Hamburg for my stag do last weekend. The things that happen in Hamburg; the things you see. A drunken mate, for example, managed to fall asleep on a live amplifier in a nightclub, such was the impact of Astra, the local lager. I think Motorhead’s Ace of...
