WHEN the cloak of darkness falls upon Madrid in the weeks before spring’s arrival, the temperature drops suddenly and gusts blow across the city. Yet over on the banks of the Manzanares River, at the Vicente Calderón Stadium, there is a flame that always burns. To...
THERE has been something distorting about what Chelsea have done so far this season. Something which has damaged perceptions across the division, especially within the other sides in the top six. The rate they have notched points up has left everyone else searching...
In this week’s show Rob Gutmann is joined by Melissa Reddy, Josh Sexton and Sam Walkerdine to have a look at the six teams battling for Champions League qualification. With 13 league games remaining, each team is assessed in terms of their run-in, squad size and...
LET me take you back to a painful day in our recent history. Sunday April 27, 2014. Liverpool 0 Chelsea 2. That one. I was low down on The Kop that day with my mate Tony. Front row, corner flag. We were so close to the action that we could have tapped Iago Aspas on...
IT happened, didn’t it? The thing you thought might not happen again, that you’d convinced yourself might be a thing of the past, that you thought had disappeared. Yeah, that’s right you thought that the brain-fart had been eliminated from Simon Mignolet’s game. But...
WE all have to get up and go to work. Later we will go to Anfield for the fourth time 11 days hoping for much, much better. But for now we have to pretend to be normal human beings. With jobs and to-do lists and all that. I get through a surprising amount of mine....
BEING street-wise, being cynical — call it want you want but the Reds don’t seem to know a whole lot about it, writes IAN RYAN. Now, that might seem harsh to say about a team that has been flying high for most of the season and currently finds itself only one...
There are no excuses and no hiding places. Everybody sees every game. Everybody knows where the bodies are buried. If this season doesn’t result in the league title then the body wasn’t buried tonight. It was buried against Swansea or Bournemouth. The dirt...
TAW contributors with talking points straight from the ground as Liverpool drew 1-1 with Chelsea. Captain Fantastic Thought Henderson was unreal for us tonight, proper captain’s performance. In the ref’s ear when he needed to be and was making important...
COLD light of day and that, but fuck that… Simon Mignolet: 3 (1st half) 7 (second half) Bread, milk, some 60 per cent cocoa Lindt, some soft por… ‘ang on a sec… shite. Lashed his shopping list in the bin for penno, which was nice of him....
Virgil Van Dijk’s New Contract Reaction: TAW Midweek Extra
The Anfield Wrap’s midweek free podcast brings reaction immediately after the news that Virgil van Dijk has signed a new contract was announced by Liverpool. John Gibbons hosts Beth Lindop, Mike Kearney and Abi Rudkin…
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