AS a contest it was hard to know to expect from Liverpool vs Newcastle. One side which has been inconsistent and a little impotent against poorer opposition at home and the other side one which appears to have downed tools for the campaign insofar as they ever had...
POST-Arsenal, heads had gone. Everywhere I looked, heads had gone. Not quite everywhere. Everywhere’s harsh. And the madness has been tempered slightly by victory at Blackburn. But one of the ways you know heads have gone is because Paul Tomkins writes something...
QUICKLY, declarations of interest: 1. I’m hosting the launch of the book with Simon and Jamie Carragher. 2. I consider Simon to be a friend. After reading Men In White Suits I worry about the second declaration of interest. Simon’s inherent relaxed, open...
WE’RE going to Wembley. Whether we like it or not. I’d rather play at Villa Park, even Old Trafford, but anyway. They don’t involve me in these decisions. Reminder: a 5 is alright. The Reds Are Gnarling Up The Hill Boys. SIMON MIGNOLET: 9 That save...
THERE are times when I strongly hate the way I write about football. People think you are messing round rather than committing to the subject matter. All season, the essence of why I discuss goals has been ignored because of the *way* I discuss goals. Here’s...
A LATE addition to The Anfield Wrap’s website, this is The Rider from last week. Neil Atkinson, John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia had ten great songs. They also discuss getting the club going up on a Tuesday and not being told about new songs....
DAVE Downie was brilliant on this week’s The Coach Home. He was fascinating about Everton, eviscerating the mentality — or lack thereof — which leads to a football club crumbling from within; bilious, toxic, cycloptic — the idea that things...
THERE’S a Mancunian contingent with us today in the boozer. Good lads. Head the ground before us. They are eager about the post match. Trying to impress upon them this one thing — you’ll have a better night if The Reds win. If The Reds win it will be...
NEIL ATKINSON, John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia get into the reaction to Kanye’s booking at Glastonbury, Kendrick Lamar’s new album and they ease their way through the first half of the show. It feels like an album week. Ten terrific songs...
HALF time. Half time and my Lord, my hand to God, Liverpool look a mile away. As though the game has come as an enormous surprise to the lot of them. A day out at the Gower and Colin Pascoe says: “Forget this area of outstanding natural beauty lads, we kick off...
