MOST conversations between footie fans end up boiling down to the same thing: the aspiration, the reality and the unexplained gap that lies in between. What fills that gap — the knowledge of what really happens behind walls, in boardrooms, on training pitches,...
SILLY season is now in full flow. The distraction of actual games of football has gone, and the important business of which footballers we should — and shouldn’t buy — is on everyone’s lips. Not even the small matter of who is going to manage...
IT’S going to be a long summer. Hell hath no fury like a Liverpool fan scorned. Hell hath no fury like a Liverpool fan yet to be scorned, but expecting to be scorned. At times hell even hath no fury like a Liverpool fan faced with the rumoured arrival of a James...
IT seems the club decided he wasn’t a priority in the end, looking to spend their transfer kitty elsewhere in more pressing areas. But that hasn’t stopped us wondering why Memphis Depay maybe fancied Manchester United more than Liverpool. TAW’s Ian Salmon...
WELL there you go. We’ve done it again. We talked about this on The Anfield Wrap Unwrapped (TAW player, fiver a month, it’s quality, give it a go if you haven’t already); Tony Barrett had said that the negotiations with Memphis Depay had stalled a week ago. No...
FOR more than 20 years, the scenario has been the same. As soon as Liverpool encounter problems, they look to the transfer market for a solution only to end up creating new ones. If the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting...
It’s 26 years to the day since Ian Rush returned to Liverpool after his short spell at Juventus. NEIL SCOTT remembers it well. AS anyone with a cursory knowledge of the football landscape will tell you, the transfer window has its own unique lexicon. “Sources...
DOES anyone remember Clubcall? I don’t know if it’s still going but I used to ring it when I was at work. It was a phone service which gave you club rumours and interviews ‘direct from Anfield’. I can still remember the opening bars and a...
I’M FIFTY. I may have mentioned this, I’ve had kind of an obsession about the fact for the last year. Those of you who have hit the figure will know what I’m talking about, those who haven’t will find out. Regardless. 50. More memories behind...
“FOUR hours! You think you can do four hours of speech radio?” Asked Steve Hothersall. Perfectly reasonably. The unspoken answer to that is that my life is 17 hours of speech radio interspersed with, at the very least, the attempt to sleep. My spoken answer was that...
The Anfield Wrap’s midweek podcast looking back at Liverpool’s win against Sunderland and looking ahead to Brighton in the FA Cup this Saturday.
John Gibbons hosts James Carr, Ian Salmon and Daniel Eastwood.
Also in the show, Kieo talks to Joe Jones from ‘Your Light Matters’, Joe is setting up an exhibition at the Isla Gladstone Conservatory to highlight ‘invisible issue’ of men’s mental health and encourage people to speak out more.
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