Simon Starts CHANCES are you probably know this already, or you expected it to be the case — or maybe you’ve just been living under a rock since Loris Karius let Dimitri Payet kick it into his goal last weekend — but Jürgen Klopp has today confirmed...
SOME of you won’t remember much about Ian Rush. You’ll have heard stories, seen clips. You’ll know about the camera sent tumbling in the back of the Everton net, the four goals at Goodison in the Glenn Keeley derby. You might even have commemorated it in song. You’ll...
“HOW on earth was that only 4-0?” As I exited the press box after the final whistle on Wednesday night, those were the first words I heard. And indeed, how exactly did not Liverpool better the 6-0 scorching of Everton recorded at Anfield in September 1935? It, and...
FIRST goal goes in. James Milner can put a cross in, can’t he. Second goal goes in. James Milner can really put a cross in, can’t he. Can’t he? Yes. Yes he can. What a terrific half of football from Liverpool. Before they go 1-0 up they should be 2-0...
Evening everyone, Here’s my Five from Fitzgerald for tonight’s game: 1) The Anfield Wrap’s Kate Forrester I had the following conversation with Kate Forrester on WhatsApp earlier: “Can you send me your Five Things from Fitzgerald after the...
OH go ed the Reds. For a while record scores were threatened, but in the end even the greedy will take Liverpool 4 Everton 0. The first twenty minutes were very open. Liverpool dangerous, remarkably easily, from balls over the top. Everton, Barkley and Lukaku...
WITH several other journalists, I was invited to interview Phil Jagielka at a high school in Halewood ahead of the last Merseyside derby. Autumn had almost arrived and Jagielka was flourishing again in the centre of the Everton defence after what he admitted had been...
I’VE always thought the derby is a bit like going for a periodic medical. It’s not entirely necessary that it should be occurring on the particular scheduled date, but the simple fact of it happening raises blood pressure, and implies a phase of self assessment...
WE’VE produced hundreds of shows and published a couple of thousand articles since The Anfield Wrap was launched four years ago. And I reckon in all that time no-one’s EVER mentioned David Burrows. “Who?” you might well say, depending on when your Liverpool-supporting...
THE 225th Merseyside Derby then. Got to be honest, I haven’t got a clue how it’s going to pan out, my head’s a bit done in with The Reds at the moment. It’s funny, though, how confident some Blues are about bagging their first win over us since...
