by Steve Graves | Feb 7, 2012 | Footie
Firstly, I”d like to apologise for the vile and incendiary language you”re about to read in the next paragraph. People of a nervous disposition should look away from this barrage of racist filth, but I hope other readers will recognise the need to expose...
by Steve Graves | Feb 3, 2012 | Footie
MY appearances on the Anfield Wrap podcast have so far been met mostly with radio silence. I like to think I’ve been doing a solidly unobtrusive job, but it might just be that nobody’s much arsed about anything I say. All that changed this week, when a comment I made...
by Steve Graves | Jan 29, 2012 | Footie
Here are some things I know about Jordan Henderson. Jordan Henderson joined Liverpool from Sunderland in the summer. Jordan Henderson – and his mam – take good care of their teeth. Jordan Henderson could do a decent job of playing a rising star in 1930s German...
by Steve Graves | Jan 18, 2012 | Footie
There’s probably quite a small crossover audience between The Anfield Wrap and the Radio Four programme Woman’s Hour. Or is that me being misogynistic? Maybe I’ve missed a huge demographic as obsessed with cosmetic filling procedures and...
by Steve Graves | Jan 9, 2012 | Footie
Just before Christmas there was some sad news for the Liverpool music scene when Mick Head’s pre-Christmas gig at the Brink on Parr Street came to an early end, with the Shack frontman taken to hospital. Thankfully it sounds like Mick is on the mend, but the...
by Steve Graves | Jan 1, 2012 | Footie
IT became something of a ritual in our house. At least once evening a week the phone would ring. My mum, ever-patient despite the demands of a full-time job and a socially-awkward six-year-old to keep in fish fingers and Gola shellsuits, would answer as usual. “No,...
by Steve Graves | Dec 18, 2011 | Footie
PARRY was not dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. In fact, as the clock struck eleven and Christmas Day 2011 drew nearer, Liverpool FC’s chief executive felt alive. Never more so. Nightcap in hand and on head, he thrilled at the smooth leather...
by Steve Graves | Dec 9, 2011 | Footie
LONELY and desperate for attention? Bored while you wait for the Clearasil to take effect? Completed Modern Warfare 3 on Veteran setting twice and looking for a new challenge? Fear not, for soon you and thousands like you will have the ideal opportunity to feel your...
by Steve Graves | Dec 1, 2011 | Footie
IT’S the not knowing that kills you. By the time you read this the extent of the injury sustained by Lucas Leiva on Tuesday night may have been confirmed. In the meantime I’ll be mostly feeling sick to the stomach. As the tabloid press would have it, several million...
by Steve Graves | Dec 1, 2011 | Footie
THERE’S a website called You and Your Wedding. If you’re lucky it’ll never feature in your life, but if it does, welcome to a hell the like of which Galatasaray’s most fervent supporters could only stand back and applaud. The site’s forums are peopled by posters with...
