LIVERPOOL are stuck in a bit of a rut. It’s the kind of rut that gets you 30 points from your first 12 league games. As if the results of the first three months of the season were not encouraging enough, the sense of optimism is somehow heightened by a feeling that...
I WAS commentating on the Napoli vs PSG game on Tuesday night. The good news is that it was a draw, the bad news is that it was a bloody good draw. If Liverpool are to play any Champions League football after New Year, they will first need to play some of that...
NOBODY should go to a football match and never return home. Not a single one of the 96, not a Busby Babe, not a Thai billionaire. Grief is a deeply personal thing but heading home from the game in jubilation or despair is something that everyone visiting this site has...
PAST mistakes are not easy things to admit to for a proud man and I can think of no prouder football man than Graeme Souness. His confessional reflections on his management of Liverpool during Sky’s Monday Night Football programme this week came from deep within the...
IT is never the best idea to begin a Anfield Wrap column by talking about Manchester United – but then United are talking lots about Liverpool… Jose Mourinho said it’s about time Jürgen Klopp lifted some silverware, Gary Neville said he believes the German may...
JIMMY Case and Ray Kennedy were best mates. The only time you could separate them was on matchdays when they patrolled opposite flanks of one of the finest midfield quartets ever assembled in English club football. The brilliant bookends to Graeme Souness and Terry...
THIS time last year, Liverpool’s first-choice full-backs were Joe Gomez and Alberto Moreno. Turn the clock forward five years from now and it wouldn’t be a surprise if Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson were still the men in possession. It already feels like...
THERE was a lovely moment during Jürgen Klopp’s Match of the Day interview last Saturday when he banished his final fear about managing Liverpool. As his team breezed past the club record for season-opening victory runs, Klopp admitted that he liked the idea of...
