LONG-form moaning seems to be out of fashion right now. As the traditional football fanzine has slowly died off and morphed into websites and podcasts such as this, there seems to be less of it about these days. Rewind 20 years, even 10, and there was far more of it...
I USED to love shit horror films, blissfully ignoring the shortcomings — bad acting, poor plot, unrealistic stunts — and sticking with it for the good bits; that it was kind of entertaining and some of it made you jump. A classic of the genre in the 1980s...
JÜRGEN Klopp at Liverpool for six years? I’ll take that. I’ll take that all day. For days now I’ve been writing and rewriting an article for this site that isn’t really working how I’d like it so far. The idea was that it would accompany...
ALL the focus was on “England”. “England fans”. What the world was witnessing in Marseille was England and England fans. Not men and women, sons and daughters. Not people. England yobs. England thugs. English disease. Dark ages. Let the country...
THIS week marks 29 years since Liverpool paid Watford £900,000 for the services of John Charles Bryan Barnes, a player who proved to be one of the finest ever to pull on the red of our club. The Jamaican-born winger clocked up 407 appearances for Liverpool in 10 years...
WE decided to ask Anfield Wrap contributors what they would do this summer with clubs that weren’t their own; how they would resurrect Aston Villa? How can Arsenal make the next step? Who would you hire and who would you fire? Each got to advise, be...
IT STARTED with a miss. We all get dusty-eyed now about the nice moments of the last European Cup win; the atmosphere versus Chelsea, Jamie Carragher’s reaction to the shoot-out win in Istanbul, the homecoming, the laughs, the smiles… But it could have...
LET’S be honest, it hurts. And it’s going to for a while. There’s no enjoyable way to lose a final, and particularly one built up as a shortcut back to the big time. It felt like we’d cracked it. Back in a European final for the first time in nine years. The...
HERE we go then. Gathering cups in May…hopefully. The waiting is over. The planning done. Put the laptop away and turn off the phone. Christmas-type fervour is in full effect. The Reds are coming up the hill, boys. Liverpool in Europe just feels right. Part of...
IT’S a question we can never truly know the answer to. One we can theorise and ponder over without truly nailing a definitive. What comes first, the passion or the performance? After fearing the trademarked famous European Anfield nights had been lost forever,...
The Anfield Wrap’s post-match reaction podcast after Southampton 2 Liverpool 3, a result that puts Liverpool 8 points clear at the top of the Premier League.
John Gibbons hosts Adam Melia, Rob Gutmann and Steve Graves.
