FIRSTLY, let’s start by getting them all out of the way… Mo Salah was devastated Liverpool scored an injury time Champions League winner on Tuesday against Paris Saint-Germain, and in his clear repulsion he unmasked his disdain for both his teammates and the...
BIG deep breath… Are you ready? Here we go. A huge month of football awaits, one many have described as possibly season defining in its infancy for Liverpool. Yet this is indicative of the levels set by this season’s quest for domestic and European supremacy....
THERE are some players you just don’t worry about. From the minute they kick a ball for the club, they project an air of calmness, of reliability in many ways. There are many examples of players down the years who have emanated such an air of placidity. Yet for every...
IN a week where Liverpool’s impressive start on the pitch continued, they were dealt a levelling blow off it. Plans to expand the use of Anfield, for sports and music events to possibly be held at the stadium in future, were halted at a Liverpool Town Hall hearing....
I CAN’T wait to get back to Anfield. I can’t wait to watch Liverpool play football again. To see this team in the flesh again is a joy to behold. To get to do it another 20 or so times this season, while absorbing the waves of positivity around the place, is a...
ALL goalkeepers are mad. Let’s get that out of the way, first and foremost. They are all in some form absolutely insane and, in many ways, need to be for the occupation they have. A position which is the most isolated, in terms of a team game, ‘keepers by their...
“I LOVE the first day, man, everybody all friendly and shit.” Namond Brice in The Wire had it right. School is in as of this weekend and we all get to go back to an environment where fun and enjoyment is just as fundamental as the learning process we continue to go...
“IF you are in the relegation zone, then you are in a relegation battle” Good old Roy Hodgson, eh? The manager who will always provide a post-2010 barometer for where Liverpool Football Club once very recently stood; sullen and soaked in dark matter with the prospect...
THIS is it, then. The biggest week of our lives, the only thing in any room you’re ever in. I’ve thought about many ways to write this piece. But ultimately it has written itself, a shot from the hip aimed in the direction of Eastern Europe. Now that you’ve opened...
THERE are fewer long-standing social cliques in the city of Liverpool than those who are or have been allied in some form to the amateur football scene. Liverpool, in many ways, is a city which very much acts in the form of a community. There would be no night out...
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.
