THERE’S a scene in the film The Commitments where Joey ‘the Lips’ Fagan, the elderly trumpet player with ‘the hardest working band in the world’, finally loses patience with his saxophonist Dean Fay. Over the past weeks Dean has refused to don the regulation tuxedo...
“IN the current climate.” “The market rate.” “Inflated prices.” You might associate the following phrases with the beginnings of a political rant, but they’re in fact all increasingly common phrases used when referring to the modern day football transfer market. They...
AFTER the glory of lifting European Cup number six in Madrid in June – coupled with gathering a club-record 97 points in the Premier League – many predicted Liverpool would turn to the transfer market with the star shining so brightly. Use the position of strength as...
Liverpool are back after the final international break of the year, but how are things looking in terms of injuries within The Reds’ ranks? Gareth Roberts is joined by Adam Melia, Damian Kavanagh and Paddy Fitzsimons from Spion Kop 1906 to discuss that and look...
THERE is a strong argument that Liverpool had everything, and subsequently nothing to lose in Napoli on Tuesday. A fixture which produced one of last season’s worst displays required no real shot at redemption, given that it was the first group game between the two...
THIS might be the worst time of the football season. You’re just about getting into the swing of things and *BAM*, it all comes to a shuddering halt as the first of three international breaks in three months begins. The only positive about this one for Liverpool fans,...
On today’s Stats Show, Neil Atkinson takes a closer look at the roles of Alisson Becker and Xherdan Shaqiri as game-changing summer signings for Liverpool.
Wildcards is the show where you decide what we talk about. We have one topic around current LFC questions, one around LFC past, one around General football and another one at random. Hosting this week is Emilia Bona and she is joined by Kev Walsh, John Gibbons, Ian...
WHEN the full-time whistle sounded at Anfield on Sunday, it was almost eerie how comfortable it all felt. Liverpool had beaten Manchester United in the league for the first time since 2014, but it all seemed so routine that the feeling from most was that it was a...
DESPITE a seemingly unstoppable march towards predictability at the top level of the game, it’s the unknown that keeps us interested. We might see eye-popping odds offered by bookies that say a team has next to no chance of achieving a result, or winning a trophy, yet...
The Anfield Wrap’s midweek free podcast looking back on Girona 0 Liverpool 1 in the Champions League and looking ahead to Fulham at Anfield. John Gibbons hosts Josh Sexton, Ali Gunn and Leon McCowan…