AND then there were seven. Seven games, seven days, seven plots yet to be written. Seven beginnings, seven endings. Our silent prayer must be that they all remain relevant. We’ve come this far that the minimum we’re surely permitted is to be there to see how this all...
THERE’S nothing quite like a win. There’s nothing quite like a big win. There’s nothing like a big away win, against a massive side, in peak form, where you control the game so comprehensively that it makes anything and everything seem possible again. Liverpool are...
IN 1981, Liverpool went to Munich having drawn 0-0 in a first leg at Anfield in a European Cup semi final. Liverpool weren’t fancied. Liverpool weren’t playing well that season. The German side were confident. I was 14 in 1981 and I was having a difficult time too. I...
Bad things, It’s a lot of bad things, That they wishin’ and wishin’ and wishin’ and wishin’, They wishin’ on me, Yeah, yeah, Bad things, It’s a lot of bad things, That they wishin’ and wishin’ and wishin’ and...
BABY, life’s what you make it, Celebrate it, Anticipate it, Yesterday’s faded, Nothing can change it, Life’s what you make it… (Mark Hollis, 1985) AS Anfield let out into a mild early spring night on Wednesday at about 10pm, there was a lovely...
IT’S not easy to make sense of the last week at Liverpool Football Club. In about seven days’ time I think we’ll know more. Liverpool have faced significant tests, against Bayern Munich and Manchester United, but reaching firm conclusions on the state of The...
THIS is the end game. Not literally the end game but the beginning of the end game. We could really do with starting the beginning of the end game by winning. It’s fun to bill games as metaphorical cup finals. Often it’s just a dramatic device. On extremely rare...
IS this the least important really important game we’ve played all season? Bear with me. We’re all in for this league title. The Reds may not win it but the attitude has to remain that they’ll die trying. Of course we want to win the league and the Champions League,...
THESE are testing times. I feel I’ve typed that sentence before and will again before the year is out. We aren’t sure if we’re on the cusp of something truly historic or being drawn back into a recurring nightmare. The experiences of the past two weeks have been a new...
I WAS chatting to my nine-year-old lad about the first time I saw Liverpool win the league. It was 1979. I think I could still tell you the result of each and every single game, and probably most of the goalscorers in those matches. I’d even claim I could recall the...
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.
