CRYSTAL Palace — the team of the 80s. That become the media’s billing for Terry Venables’ bright young Cockney things who went from promotion to the top flight to being considered the fresh new dynamic face of modern football in a short space of time, at...
AS part of our two-part TAW: Unwrapped special on the Anfield atmosphere, our man GLENN PRICE spoke to Jim Daly from Crystal Palace fanzine and podcast The Five Year Plan about Selhurst Park’s upturn in decibels thanks to the work of the group calling themselves the...
ON current form, if the once famous Anfield roar really was our “Twelfth Man”, he would have been ignominiously hauled off before half-time never to pull on a red jersey again, writes DAVID WEBBER. Blame for his decline is usually attributed towards the...
THE piece I had in mind if we won was much better if I’m honest. It was half about settling scores, half about The Anfield Wrap going to karaoke and singing Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits. It had everything. Atkinson as a flirtatious Juliet, Gibbo as a love...
SUCH a frustrating day, especially with others dropping points. The Palace fans sang: “You must be sick of us.” They’re not wrong. Then we all got absolutely soaked. Brilliant. Maybe international breaks aren’t so bad after all. Simon Mignolet: 4 If your USP is...
GHOSTS roam the stadium in Anfield. I see them every game. I see a Kenny Dalglish-shaped apparition: arms aloft, teeth, hair, smiling like a kid. Running towards The Kop. I see Bill Shankly: be-scarfed, arms aloft, teeth clenched, jaw proud. Striding towards The Kop....
WITH Liverpool taking on Crystal Palace at Anfield in the Premier League on Sunday, The Anfield Wrap’s GLENN PRICE spoke to Eagles legend GEOFF THOMAS, who experienced both the low of the 9-0 drubbing at the hands of the Reds in 1989, and the revenge in the FA...
ROB GUTMANN, Neil Atkinson and Ben Johnson try to answer the age old question, who do you want to win when Everton play Manchester United? The Liverpool Echo’s David Prentice knows. He supports Everton, and is waxing lyrical on how Everton’s young...
NEIL ATKINSON, Gareth Roberts, Paul Cope and Steve Graves are in for this week’s podcast, reflecting on an encouraging victory over Crystal Palace as the Reds march on in the FA Cup. Like what we do? Buy us a pint! DIRECT LINK – All Pard Of the Dance...
THE stage was set, the watching Saturday night crowd ready. 1990s Alan Pardew and 1990s Crystal Palace back to the future at their 1990s ground to recreate a cup upset in the world’s oldest cup competition. They even recreated the programme from the 4-3 inside today’s...
