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HOLDING OUT FOR NO HERO

LIVERPOOL under perform. They need a holding midfielder. Liverpool lose. They need a holding midfielder. Liverpool lose two on the bounce. They are crying out for a holding midfielder. There's a problem here between what people want and the reality which is in front...

LIVERPOOL: GETTING HAMMERED

LIVERPOOL: GETTING HAMMERED

SATURDAY was a bad day to invest in a bottle of Bailey’s. It tastes like milk, but it has the anaesthetic properties of a sledgehammer. Now let’s get things clear, not all in the Liverpool FC garden is rosy, but neither is all in the garden covered in horse shit. I...

LIVERPOOL: STRUGGLING TO FEEL THE VIBE

LIVERPOOL: STRUGGLING TO FEEL THE VIBE

WHERE do you start after that? Well, I’ll begin with the mitigating circumstances. Sturridge is a massive, massive miss. As big a miss as the departed Suarez. Allen is out. Emre Can, though we know nothing of his aptitude, is out. Today, Skrtel was returning after a...

WEST HAM UNITED THREE LIVERPOOL ONE

WEST HAM UNITED THREE LIVERPOOL ONE

THIS has become, perhaps too quickly, perhaps unfairly, the biggest challenge of Brendan Rodgers's Liverpool career. Liverpool have for the second time lost consecutive games under Brendan Rodgers. The previous two were against the sides that finished 1st and 3rd....

REFEREES: WHY DOES THE GAME DO SWEET FA ABOUT FAILING OFFICIALS?

REFEREES: WHY DOES THE GAME DO SWEET FA ABOUT FAILING OFFICIALS?

LONG-TIME listeners to The Anfield Wrap will know that Neil Atkinson hates talking about referees.Understandably so. With the current crop it becomes boring, frustrating and oh so repetitive. Sometimes, though, it's a conversation that needs to be had. Let's have it...

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HOLDING OUT FOR NO HERO

LIVERPOOL under perform. They need a holding midfielder. Liverpool lose. They need a holding midfielder. Liverpool lose two on the bounce. They are crying out for a holding midfielder. There's a problem here between what people want and the reality which is in front...

LIVERPOOL: GETTING HAMMERED

LIVERPOOL: GETTING HAMMERED

SATURDAY was a bad day to invest in a bottle of Bailey’s. It tastes like milk, but it has the anaesthetic properties of a sledgehammer. Now let’s get things clear, not all in the Liverpool FC garden is rosy, but neither is all in the garden covered in horse shit. I...

LIVERPOOL: STRUGGLING TO FEEL THE VIBE

LIVERPOOL: STRUGGLING TO FEEL THE VIBE

WHERE do you start after that? Well, I’ll begin with the mitigating circumstances. Sturridge is a massive, massive miss. As big a miss as the departed Suarez. Allen is out. Emre Can, though we know nothing of his aptitude, is out. Today, Skrtel was returning after a...

WEST HAM UNITED THREE LIVERPOOL ONE

WEST HAM UNITED THREE LIVERPOOL ONE

THIS has become, perhaps too quickly, perhaps unfairly, the biggest challenge of Brendan Rodgers's Liverpool career. Liverpool have for the second time lost consecutive games under Brendan Rodgers. The previous two were against the sides that finished 1st and 3rd....

REFEREES: WHY DOES THE GAME DO SWEET FA ABOUT FAILING OFFICIALS?

REFEREES: WHY DOES THE GAME DO SWEET FA ABOUT FAILING OFFICIALS?

LONG-TIME listeners to The Anfield Wrap will know that Neil Atkinson hates talking about referees.Understandably so. With the current crop it becomes boring, frustrating and oh so repetitive. Sometimes, though, it's a conversation that needs to be had. Let's have it...