Easy targets – Torres, Rosenthal and the politics of misses
AS the hedge fund managers using Twitter to gauge the public mood have realised, social media offers a window into our collective hive mind, with all the horrors that entails. While the online environment can distort some ideas, giving undue prominence to the...
Happy Meals to Gammy Wheels
IT'S a horrible, gut-wrenching feeling, isn't it? A day that started well (kids ate their toasty soldiers over the Barca v Osasuna highlights) has stumbled and stuttered towards its midpoint, and shows every sign of trundling down the proverbial gurgler before it's...
INTERVIEW: THE TEA STREET BAND
NEIL CONDRON interviews THE TEA STREET BAND for The Anfield Wrap. WHILE the rain poured down on most of the country this summer, a solitary ray of Balearic sunshine was warming parts of Liverpool and bringing some of its favourite sons back out from the shade. Formed...
Book Review: Joe Fagan – Reluctant Champion by Andrew Fagan and Mark Platt, Aurum Press
ANDREW FAGAN (Joe's Grandson) and Mark Platt have delivered a thorough and fitting biography of a true footballing gent. It concentrates as much on football as the man himself clearly did; what drips from every page is Joe Fagan’s love of the game. It’s there as he...
Hope Street Feast
Sunday 18th September, 2011 FAR REMOVED from the sterile commercialism of Liverpool One, ‘Hope Street Feast’ has found a home between our two symbolic cathedrals. A home that is now synonymous with chronology, culture and creativity. If you add families and flair to...
Easy targets – Torres, Rosenthal and the politics of misses
AS the hedge fund managers using Twitter to gauge the public mood have realised, social media offers a window into our collective hive mind, with all the horrors that entails. While the online environment can distort some ideas, giving undue prominence to the...
Happy Meals to Gammy Wheels
IT'S a horrible, gut-wrenching feeling, isn't it? A day that started well (kids ate their toasty soldiers over the Barca v Osasuna highlights) has stumbled and stuttered towards its midpoint, and shows every sign of trundling down the proverbial gurgler before it's...
INTERVIEW: THE TEA STREET BAND
NEIL CONDRON interviews THE TEA STREET BAND for The Anfield Wrap. WHILE the rain poured down on most of the country this summer, a solitary ray of Balearic sunshine was warming parts of Liverpool and bringing some of its favourite sons back out from the shade. Formed...
Book Review: Joe Fagan – Reluctant Champion by Andrew Fagan and Mark Platt, Aurum Press
ANDREW FAGAN (Joe's Grandson) and Mark Platt have delivered a thorough and fitting biography of a true footballing gent. It concentrates as much on football as the man himself clearly did; what drips from every page is Joe Fagan’s love of the game. It’s there as he...
Hope Street Feast
Sunday 18th September, 2011 FAR REMOVED from the sterile commercialism of Liverpool One, ‘Hope Street Feast’ has found a home between our two symbolic cathedrals. A home that is now synonymous with chronology, culture and creativity. If you add families and flair to...