by Ben Johnson | Feb 29, 2016 | Footie
I DON’T know about you but I had a great day out. One of them where everything comes off. Our minibus turned up when it was supposed to, the driver wasn’t a Bluenose and he was sound (well in, Paul). We got to London without hitting any traffic, found a...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 29, 2016 | Podcast, TAW Player
NEIL ATKINSON is joined post Cup Final defeat by John Gibbons, Paul Senior and Gareth Roberts to pick the bones of Manchester City’s win over The Reds for this week’s free podcast. Neil keeps trying to go front to back from Liverpool’s first team but...
by Neil Atkinson | Feb 28, 2016 | Footie
I LOOK across on 65 minutes or so and Raffy Gutmann, aged six, at his first final, is in tears; tears rolling down his cheeks. He’s in tears and really it isn’t unreasonable. I have no solace to offer. None whatsoever. If I was six years old I would be...
by John Gibbons | Feb 28, 2016 | Footie
THE easiest way to win a cup final is to be the better team. Even if you can’t be the better team on the pitch in the 90 or 120 minutes, you can have the better players to win a shoot-out. Despite what people tell you about it being a lottery. Manchester City...
by Rob Gutmann | Feb 27, 2016 | Footie
THERE are moments when we doubt Wembley. Like when they needlessly play semi-finals there. Like when we sense the smugness in its association with a national side we feel little affinity with. In these moments, Wembley, you seem so very far away. Then there’s the...
by Rob Gutmann | Feb 26, 2016 | Footie
THESE are the moments. Let’s not deny it to ourselves. Why the game got us. Why we became locked into its ways and wiles. We’re always in it for the prizes. Scaling peaks is what sport is all about. Don’t decry any summit. A challenge is a challenge. We have risen to...
by Michael Nevin | Feb 26, 2016 | Footie
SUNDAY’S Capital One Cup final feels a bit of a weird one. A one-off showpiece occasion, with Liverpool slight underdogs against the financial might of moneybags Manchester City. And yet, it lacks the edge of a clash with more traditional rivals; the existence...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jan 27, 2016 | Podcast, TAW Player
ROB Gutmann is joined for this week’s edition of The Anfield Wrap Unwrapped show by Phil Blundell and Stuart Wright to discuss all the fall out from Tuesday night’s dramatic League Cup semi-final 2nd leg against Stoke. The Reds are going back to Wembley but Anfield...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jan 27, 2016 | Podcast, TAW Player
IN a late night post Capital One Cup Semi-Final Second leg review, Neil Atkinson is joined in the studio for ‘The Pink’ by Phil Blundell, Paul Senior and Craig Hannan as Liverpool progressed after a long night against Mark Hughes’ Stoke City on...
