WE’VE asked some of The Anfield Wrap’s regular contributors to crawl around the loft and look under the bed to dig out some of their most treasured ticket stubs and tell us the tales behind them. First with his favourite five is MIKE NEVIN. FA CUP FINAL...
IF at first, you don’t succeed… I got changed in a bog last night. Student/truck driver behaviour (delete as appropriate) for a supposedly urbane man of 47 years. The much-improved services at Rivington North — a hop, skip and a jump from the Macron/...
I’VE let the dust settle a bit. There have been hundreds of articles, quite understandably so, lamenting the forthcoming departure of Steven Gerrard for the sunnier climes of Los Angeles. The “Hollywood balls” are going home. The “quarterback” is jetting off to...
EVEN in the impatient world of modern football, Liverpool supporters around the world are still famed for their loyal, unswerving support. While in recent years a more sedate Anfield has homogenised with other Premier League crowds and the lines between supporters and...
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...
I’VE READ with interest the Anfield Wrap correspondents’ opening commentaries on their adopted World Cup nations; ranging from Kate Forrester’s hopes that Diego Costa will bring unsavoury mayhem to Spain’s matches, to Dan Fitzsimmons’ beautiful relationship with the...
NEVER been to Aintree? You can bet you’re missing out, says MIKE NEVIN. ORGANISED horse racing in the UK predates professional football by more than 100 years and the Grand National – first run officially at Aintree in 1839 and won by an aptly-named beast called...
