THE League Cup doesn’t matter? Someone forgot to tell Liverpool. When I heard the team read out on Radio City as I drove towards the ground it prompted a scowl, a nod and a clench of the fist. Not just because Liverpool were taking this seriously, but because...
I SHOULD be going to bed. I’m due in work at 7am, and the alarm clock will ring at 5. Instead, I’m pouring a bevvy and writing this because my head’s chocka. It’s chocka because one of the greatest players every to pull on the red shirt is...
IN the context of modern day football it sounds ridiculous. In a week not interrupted by games – remember them? – top-flight managers picked 10 players from their first-team squads and told them to dig out their trainees. They needed them, because they were off to a...
COLOUR me concerned. Everyone has their tipping point depending where on the scale of glass half-full-glass half-empty you are. That was mine. A fourth defeat in a row. Twelfth in the league. Four points from the bottom three. Has a team ever gone backwards so...
WHATEVER the individual take on Tuesday’s team selection – and we had everything from bold and brave to stupid and silly – most agreed on one thing: It meant the intensity of focus on Brendan Rodgers would increase when Chelsea came to town. It was always likely to be...
“Oh, and he gets a kiss for it! From a man incidentally wearing a blue-striped shirt!” The commentary is almost as memorable as the goal – a sublime Barnes backheel in the build up, McMahon’s centre and the ball, via Aldridge, falling to Beardsley,...
FOOTBALL in 2014 is a 24/7 all-consuming monster. If you are involved in the game at the highest level, that monster is there at every turn; in your face: watching, listening, examining facial expressions and toiling over every word. Why? It’s waiting. Ready to say...
RAHEEM Sterling “sleeps when he wants” apparently but there’s plenty to cause a waking nightmare about the way Liverpool are playing right now. Winning like that – in the last minute, after playing so badly, after throwing it away, after getting on...
I was 14 when I first found myself within the confines of Anfield, one of just 17,228 souls present to watch the Reds dismantle Crewe Alexandra 5-1 in the Rumblelows Cup in 1990. Twenty four years later, it’s not the goals or the goalscorers that jump immediately to...
AFTER last season’s jump from so far to so near, Liverpool are desperate to make a statement. The club wants to tell the football world that last season was no fluke; that the club is here to stay – feasting at the top table, back in the Champions League, challenging...
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.
