I’M in a difficult moment. Still struggling to live in the here and now. I simply cannot wait for this epoch-defining game to be over and simultaneously for it to never happen. Same for this season as an entirety. Liverpool being good again is forcing me to wish my...
Y’ALL ready for this? I’m not ready for this. I’m still in Villa Park, hugging strangers, dancing in the aisles and the concourses, giving it the wanker hand gestures to retreating home fans, belting out about us having conquered all manner of shit. We all slept...
THE game before the game is a dangerous game. Liverpool have eyes only for Aston Villa, legs ready to run through brick walls in Birmingham on Saturday, but hearts that are surely beating faster knowing that the day of reckoning with Manchester City is ebbing ever...
NO one is worried about getting knocked out of the League Cup. We’ve all had the memo. The main event is trying to win the title, to pair with the Champions League, and for this to be the season we came to see as one, where we realised Liverpool were truly at the dawn...
WE’RE at one of those junctures already. One of those proverbial fork-in-the-road moments. Last season we built a lead on City but once we allowed it to slip, the margin just withered as if it had all been so illusory. Liverpool had two spells last campaign in which...
THERE was a glimpse of what life looks like without Mo Salah, afforded as a subplot to a very derby-esque derby at Old Trafford on Sunday. Of course it’s not the first game Salah has missed, but his absence felt like a very real void, perhaps for the first time....
I GO through phases of swerving Old Trafford. It’s logistically the second easiest away jaunt of the season but also the most potentially stressful. It’s the one with the most edge. I’m going to say I can’t remember seeing us win there. It’s probably best I don’t go....
THERE was a deja vu element to Wednesday night’s partial “collapse” against Salzburg. A Liverpool team surrendering a big lead felt very 2017-18. Those were exciting times. Liverpool played some sensational football that season, but on certain days sure...
NOTHING quite like a “hard to gauge” European challenge. Salzburg are an unknown quantity. They could be mustard and yet equally they might be a bit shite. The mystery is part of the fun and feels comfortingly old school. Back in the glory years, when our first four...
I DON’T think I’ve ever been to Bramall Lane. It’s one of the few important grounds in the country I’ve not been to. Probably. Maybe I went there in the ’90s. I used to guard my trove of football memories so securely. Every game, every...
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.
