IT’S nearly 11 months since Jürgen Klopp arrived at Anfield, and it’s been quite the ride so far. He never said it would be easy. We knew damn well it would never be easy. And guess what? It’s not been easy. What it definitely has been is enormously enjoyable at...
I REALLY fancied this one. A brand new away in a poxy little ground full of old world charm. And it’s virtually all standing there. A real trip down memory lane awaited. Unfortunately, inherent in the appeal of this jaunt is ticket scarcity. So unless someone turns up...
I’ll tell you now and I’ll tell you firmly. I don’t never want to go to Burnley. What they do there don’t concern me. Why would anybody make the journey? (John Cooper Clarke) Cooper Clarke is a tough crowd. He’s dealt a near fatal blow to a...
ALRIGHT, kids? Here we are again, Back at the start. Refreshed, renewed, reborn. I can feel it. You can feel it. I’m running on the spot as I type this. It’s Friday. Match isn’t till Sunday. I’ll be staying over in London. Thinking about packing my bag now. Not...
LIVERPOOL FC finished eighth in the Premier League last season. Before then, the club’s last eighth-placed finishes came in 2012 under Kenny Dalglish and in 1994, under the reign of Graeme Souness. And before that? All the way back to 1963 under Bill...
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 Director Of...
DURING the football season itself — when Liverpool FC are my first, last and always — I have zero interest in international football. It is only a needless distraction from the main event. An interloper in a perfectly sufficient festival of red-rooted...
I’M NOT going to Basel. A week of tossing and turning. Thrashing in the darkness. Trying to still a restless mind. I’m not going to Basel. I can’t go to Basel. I really wish I was going to Basel. Circumstance is my enemy. You surely know me well enough by now,...
THERE’S no hiding it. It’s going to be a tough one, this one. A game we are going to have to heave over the finishing line of a league season sadly long departed. It would be hard to fashion a contest as potentially uninspiring and lacking in relevance as this....
LAST day of term. Farewell to Anfield for the summer. It’s been a strange year with the old ground. She’s put us through the mixer for half the time, but come good in the end. Anfield never lets you down for too long. Eventually Anfield becomes Anfield again,...
