LIVERPOOL defender Nathaniel Clyne has had a very good week. The defenders emergence as an indispensable missing link following draws against Leicester City and West Ham United has coincided with levels of sheer panic being displayed by some supporters. Meanwhile,...
BOTTLE. They love goading you with bottle. There are many things you learn when you find yourself setting the pace. The empathy you feel for those who become so invested in your club’s fate due to their own lack of stimulation being one. They make it all about bottle....
“I fully intended to sign a new contract after the Champions League final, but the events of the past five to six weeks have changed all that.” – Steven Gerrard, July 2005 “If, at that point in time, I was offered a contract, I most definitely would have signed...
I’VE been thinking a lot about outrage lately. I get the feeling outrage has been applied to almost all aspects of daily life in recent years, and as a result we’re in danger of the whole concept becoming neutralised. In a week where outrage has been attributed to all...
I READ an article yesterday which cited this week, the first full working week after the Christmas period, is the one we often find the most physically and emotionally draining of the whole new year. Often seeped in the guilt and lethargy of overindulgence and the...
SO, we’re still top. And it seems they still don’t like it. In the buildup to yesterday’s media-driven hyperbole of a “title-deciding” game at the Etihad Stadium, which it never at any point was, sections of passionately timorous social media tribes were collectively...
THE continued rise and fall of Liverpool and Manchester United was encapsulated in The Reds’ 3-1 victory at Anfield on Sunday. Given that it was swiftly followed by the departure of Jose Mourinho from Old Trafford, a sense of revisionism has been necessary for both...
MOHAMED Salah is the best player in the world right now. We can all be precious about such statements in football, especially when it doesn’t align with the impounding truisms we hold as fans of our respective clubs. Judging by the current mood of some Everton fans...
LEADERS shone through at Burnley on Wednesday night. Leaders all over the pitch, in what was eventually an excellent win on the back of the ecstasy and elation of the Merseyside derby. Last week I wrote about leaders and specifically captains, yet the truth is this...
I’VE often pondered what constitutes a captain’s performance in football. There are some which instantly spring to mind, Steven Gerrard in the 2006 FA Cup final, Roy Keane away to Juventus in 1999 and Tony Adams against Everton on the final day of 1997-98. All of them...
Isak At Ipswich & Champions League Returns | The Anfield Wrap
The Anfield Wrap’s free weekly podcast for chat about Liverpool’s Friday night out at Portman Road and then looking ahead to both Atletico Madrid midweek and then Álvaro Arbeloa return to Anfield with Fulham at the weekend before we discuss matters at the top of the club with Richard Hughes finally exiting and more changes in the boardroom.
Neil Atkinson is joined by Ian Ryan, Rob Gutmann and Joel Penny.
Also in the show, Neil chats to Paul Finney from ‘QPR Pod’ for a chat about Amit Bhatia for more detail on the man who has headed the ‘1892 Holdings’ investment in Liverpool Football Club.
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