IF the August transfer window ends with Joe Allen still a Liverpool player, he will be starting his fifth season in a Liverpool shirt. Allen has been one of the stand-out performers in Wales’ incredible run to the semi-finals of Euro 2016, where they face Portugal...
SADIO Mane is a Liverpool player then. Rumour has it that he was vetoed by Brendan Rodgers two years ago after his statistics were put through the committee’s algorithm and the results came out favourably. We’ll never know if this is true or not but it could be that...
THE expansion of the European Championships finals has brought us one key thing: the 2pm kick off. The 2pm kick off is the key to it all. How can you not get excited about the 2pm kick off? They’re what make these tournaments for me – games of football while everyone...
LAST week was like a never-ending Gonzalo Higuaín-athon. We had El Pipita apparently saying he wanted to come and play for us, we had Jürgen Klopp turning up at a Copa America game between Argentina and Chile and getting off one minute after Higuaín was substituted,...
I SAT down to write this and started thinking about how good Spain is. I’ve ended up disappearing for the best part of three hours going off to make a Tortilla Espanola before coming back to do this. I basically reeled off a load of things Spain did really well and...
FRIDAY evening sees France v Romania on the telly and the start of the 2016 European Championships. Tournament football is great, isn’t it? I’ve seen people say they think it’s rubbish and that they hated ‘The X World Cup’ because it wasn’t very entertaining. So I...
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 Arsenal make the next step. The questions are endless. Each got to advise, be Director Of Football or...
IT’S escaped almost everyone’s notice but we’re in a really peculiar position this year whereby Liverpool could face the crazy proposition of a play-off for seventh place in the Premier League. There’s a pair of results that mean that, while this is pretty...
I’VE watched last Thursday about 20 times. The Lov leaping like a salmon out of the Kupa river and sending the Kop into raptures. Not a clue if they even have salmon in Croatia but you get my point: He jumped dead high and he’s Croatian. I’m struggling to figure...
WE scored 101 goals in 2013-2014. That’s absolutely loads. A ridiculous number. I know someone who backed Liverpool to score the most goals in the League that season at 25/1. He lost. That was really, really funny. For me obviously, not him. As good an attacking force...
