DEFEAT, self-inflicted or ruthlessly picked apart by clinical opponents? Take your pick, as the loss at Manchester City could fall into either category. There will be other days and nights like these, the next one might even arise on Sunday at White Hart Lane, but...
AFTER last season’s jump from so far to so near, Liverpool are desperate to make a statement. The club wants to tell the football world that last season was no fluke; that the club is here to stay – feasting at the top table, back in the Champions League, challenging...
CONTROL. Control’s fascinating. We’ve fetishised control. I’ve fetishised control. Run a football match and everything will follow. Liverpool today took control. They chose control. A lovely shape in the first half out of possession. Allen and...
REY MASHAYEKHI was at the Yankee Stadium for Liverpool’s penalty shoot-out win over Manchester City. “Hey Xabi, you know which train we gotta take?” The man on the platform, identifying me by the “Alonso 14” on my back, was draped in red from head to toe. With...
LOOKING back at this season, it’s hard to shake the feeling of ‘what could have been’, writes PAUL McCABE. The Chelsea defeat and the surrender of a three-goal lead to Crystal Palace prompted many to accuse Liverpool of bottling it; of coming up short when it mattered...
FOOTBALL – like life – does not follow a linear narrative structure, writes ADAM SMITH. We have, as supporters, become so used to stories being about B following A, leading to C, that we now attempt to impose some sort of shape to what is, in essence, a blank sheet of...
NO-ONE on this site needs any help working out the permutations – we all know what the chances are and what circumstances need to prevail for Liverpool to take their chance to be League winners for the 19th time, and the first in over two decades. No-one on this site...
I HAVE a tendency to speak – and indeed write – before I think. I find this to be one of my more endearing traits, but I can understand there may be others who disagree. Somewhere in the city there is a man named Mongoose – he has a real name but...
WALKING out the ground there is loads of singing. Loads of harassed faces. I bump into Ben Jono. Collapse on to his shoulder. This is overwhelming. Everyone is exhausted and exhuberant. This is the essence of tired and emotional. I was terrified for Arsenal. A wreck....
Due to a fixtureless weekend for the Reds this weeks Anfield Wrap is an Overview special looking at the Liverpool’s upcoming fixtures both domestically and in the Champions League.
Rob Gutmann hosts Phil Blundell, Ian Ryan and John Gibbons.
Also in the show Neil Atkinson talks to Emma Sanders about Matt Beard’s departure as manager of Liverpool FC Women.
