I SUPPOSE the question for me is which game this season did I know I was watching champions? Wherever this season eventually leads and whatever asterisk opposition supporters will try to place on it, Liverpool played out almost eight months of football in which they...
LIVERPOOL were going nowhere. There is something about a title-challenging season that tells you things about football support you didn’t know existed. It takes you on a journey, both in a literal and spiritual sense. Sure, we’ve had them in our recent lifetime, but...
I RECENTLY said on an Anfield Wrap Review show that the 2017-18 season might be my favourite under Jürgen Klopp. That’s quite the statement given the highs achieved and still to come, but I stand by it. The sweet-spot moment of football support when you know your team...
SO, how are we all doing? Big question, in the grand scheme of things. I’m pretty sure the answer remains that both collectively and individually, we don’t actually know. That said, I hope you’re at least doing things which keep you and your loved ones safe and...
SOMETIMES in football, your demons never leave you. It’s like being 25 points clear at the top of the Premier League and still harbouring an irrational, nagging doubt that something will go wrong. Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think? Exorcising demons has been a key...
AT the beginning of the 2018/19 season, I was in Belfast for an Anfield Wrap live show. We were asked what one thing would bring us the most joy that season, and I replied: “I’d fucking love to see the captain of this club lift a trophy.” My answer had needle, it was...
I’M not sure this was my first game. In fact, I’m pretty certain it wasn’t. But rather than subjecting you to a fleeting, millisecond memory of a Graeme Souness side toiling against some claret and blue blur around 1992, I thought I’d recall the first game which...
WHAT is to be gained from thinking about loss? I’m not being a smartarse. It’s a genuine quandary when equating the question to football, or life. We can spend so much time thinking about what we’ve lost or are losing that you dismiss all of the little wins which tell...
“WHATEVER gets you through the night, it’s alright.” Say what you want about John Lennon – and in this city most people will have something to say – he got that one right. The past couple of weeks have taught us many things about just what our team and its...
THE arrival of the winter break in the calendar this year has coincided with my own getaway, and I’m remaining as true to it as Jürgen Klopp and his players. I’m currently in Costa Rica, staying with family in a lovely town called Atenas. We’re seven hours behind GMT...
Due to a fixtureless weekend for the Reds this weeks Anfield Wrap is an Overview special looking at the Liverpool’s upcoming fixtures both domestically and in the Champions League.
Rob Gutmann hosts Phil Blundell, Ian Ryan and John Gibbons.
Also in the show Neil Atkinson talks to Emma Sanders about Matt Beard’s departure as manager of Liverpool FC Women.
