Brendan, First of all, I’m a big fan. Let me put that front and centre. I think what you did with Liverpool Football Club last season was close to miraculous, and that the people who think it was all down to Luis Suarez don’t have a clue how football actually works....
TWO thoughts are spinning around my head about Liverpool’s slow start. One the more positive, the other my inbuilt negativity, born from years of watching Liverpool get so close, yet remain so far. The positive looks to last season. We didn’t start well....
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....
ON the TAW podcast in the aftermath of Liverpool’s defeat to Manchester City, Neil Atkinson and I debated the merits of using Steven Gerrard as a defensive midfielder. My argument was – and remains – that Gerrard is one of Liverpool’s best natural finishers. He can...
ITK definition: Someone who is ‘In The Know’ about a football club’s transfer policy. Generally tends to be teenagers. Usually obsessed with their follower count. Will definitely have used the “Liverpool Sign Bent” joke at some point. Often confused with parody...
IT’S hard to add to the debate on Luis Suarez, if for no other reason than Neil Atkinson boxed it off with a brilliant article the other day. The only thing I’d add to Neil’s piece is that Liverpool should not sell Suarez. Why should they? If Real Madrid, for...
THERE is a NASA research centre in the middle of Antarctica called Concordia. It is in the coldest, darkest and most extreme environment on the planet. The outside temperature regularly falls below -80C, or -99.9C with wind chill – the extreme limit of its scale....
