It’s another special podcast from The Anfield Wrap. It’s live from the 12-seater luxury minibus which is taking us to the final in Kiev, and we’re getting nostalgic about previous European finals; the stories surrounding the places, the games and the...
I’LL be honest. I like being honest to start. You’re reading this somewhere in the week before Jürgen Klopp’s beautiful Redmen add another potentially bloody gorgeous chapter to our storied saga, I’m writing it (obviously) earlier. That’s how time works. I’m writing...
Sid Lowe has been covering Spanish football now for many a year and his insight into the mentality, approach and poise of this Real Madrid side is very much worth listening to. In a conversation which shifts around approaches, control, the importance of luck and the...
immortality noun the ability to live forever; eternal life. SO, here we are. On the brink of immortality. The doorstep to eternity. I’ve been writing this for weeks. Thinking about how to start it, what it should say, how to follow articles that I put everything into...
THIS European run has consumed me. Consumed me in every sense of the word, writes JOEL SANDERSON-MURRAY. It’s the most relevant word I can find to describe the way I have felt since Andriy Shevchenko drew Liverpool and Manchester City together in the quarter-final...
Every week The Anfield Wrap takes a long look at Liverpool’s weekend game and wonders about the approach from The Reds and their opponents. This week though we are looking ahead, imagining we are in the shoes of Jurgen Klopp and Zinedine Zidane and wondering...
IF we played a game of Liverpool FC word association, and I threw at you the words “beach ball”, then there’s only one player that’s going to come to mind, writes GREG POWER. But even before Pepe Reina’s injustice at Sunderland in 2009, I associated a very...
YOU see the pictures and the footage from the glory days, writes RACHAEL HUNTER. You hear the stories from those lucky enough to have witnessed it first hand and it only serves to increase your desire – your pining – for your very own slice of history. I was only 12...
IT is the end of days. The faceless masses who have survived gather near the wreckage that remains of what used to be civilisation. Scared and confused, they approach the steps with caution. At the top is a figure. He turns to reveal himself as their hero. The one who...
LIVERPOOL locking horns with Real Madrid in the biggest game of the European football calendar has a eloquent feel to it, writes JOEL SANDERSON-MURRAY. Feels right, doesn’t it? The names bounce off the page at you. Liverpool and Real Madrid, these are the big boys,...
