IT’S MONDAY so there will be issues. Football always has issues on a Monday. And to make the issue look worse, someone will say it. Someone will write it. They will use that phrase. How about we stop? The opportunity is upon us. Let’s seize the chance and...
REST, sleep, recovery? It’s overrated. Our lads got back at 4am on Friday while City slept for about a week. Couldn’t tell could you? Liverpool ripped up the script and wrote their own again. The billionaires will have to wait for their Anfield win....
IT’S a debate that has been going on for years. How do we reclaim The Kop? How do we bring back the famous atmosphere that made Anfield different, that made it special and so revered? It’s a debate that needs to be had. Yet it’s a debate that always...
THE stage was set, the watching Saturday night crowd ready. 1990s Alan Pardew and 1990s Crystal Palace back to the future at their 1990s ground to recreate a cup upset in the world’s oldest cup competition. They even recreated the programme from the 4-3 inside today’s...
IT’S funny what people get angry about. Maybe I’ve changed. Grown up, maybe. It’s taken a while if so. Either that, or the vagaries of modern football have taken their toll. This advert Henderson, Sterling and Mignolet have done? Not arsed. At all. It...
LET’S not pretend for one second that there aren’t some people who attend football matches the length and breadth of this country and others worldwide intent on causing trouble. Let’s not pretend for one second that before a match between Everton and...
FOOTBALL shouldn’t really dictate life but when you’re in you’re in. And on the back of what felt like a significant win – and a significant moment in getting a fit and firing Daniel Sturridge back on the pitch – I had a cracking bevvy on Saturday night and a boss...
THERE are plenty of things you can justifiably criticise Brendan Rodgers for, as there are plenty of things you can criticise any manager for — even the very best and the most successful. Every manager buys bad players. Every manager makes the wrong decision....
EPIC. Epic because it was three and half hours long. Epic because it was a grand, gripping spectacle; a sporting battle of the highest order. Epic because every ounce of effort from every character involved was expended into emerging from the piece victorious; as the...
“IF Heskey can play for England so can I.” That’s how it all seemed to start, the tiresome ‘banter’ about Emile Heskey that seems to have dogged him for years and seeps into every conversation about the man that won 62 caps for his country and played over 500 games in...
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.
