I CAN’T lie to you, I’ve been thinking about Philippe Coutinho quite a bit. Like a relationship you’ve told yourself was completely over until you heard “your song” or smelt her perfume in a shop doorway somewhere, the abundant sense of melancholy around the little...
FIFTY-six minutes in at the Etihad and Mo Salah is the coolest person in the ground. The away end had barely finished appealing for a penalty to be given for a foul on Sadio Mane when the Egyptian king deftly lifted the ball over a collapsing Nicolas Otamendi, to put...
ONLY two players now remain from Liverpool’s 2013-14 squad. The rapid turnover reflects not just a change of manager but also a freakish squad that all too briefly peaked for one glorious spring and a resultant change of approach in the transfer market. Nevertheless,...
Joining Gareth Roberts for the latest edition of Wildcards, where we talk about the topics YOU choose are Andy Heaton, Greg Power, John Gibbons and Johnny Milburn and the topics up for discussion this week amongst the panel are: – Replacing Coutinho –...
I’VE been trying to listen to every song there ever was to flush The Archies out of my head over the last couple of days. The ever-reliable Andy Williams and his version of “The Impossible Dream” popped up on Spotify last night, and not only did it succeed...
I HAD to get away this week. My head was chocka. My head is never “burnt out” — as the modernism goes — but sometimes it feels like it might explode. I got that feeling last week as the Phil Coutinho farce did my fucking swede in. Not so much his leaving,...
LAST weekend, just days after the high of the derby, Liverpool sold our best player and, not unnaturally, people are concerned about how we replace him — be it in the next few weeks or in the summer. There’s always a sadness when moments like this come. When...
I’ve got a conundrum for you which, if you can solve, wins you a dream job that pays around £5million per year with bonuses, plus a legacy as one of the most important men or women in the history of association football. It goes like this: How can you combine having a...
Does the sale of Phillipe Coutinho leave Liverpool terminally light on numbers for the rest of the season, and who could the reds bring in to take the slack With news of tentative enquiries to Leipzig to try and free Naby Keita from his contract earlier than expected...
IN 2018 so far Liverpool have broken the world record for signing a defender, Ragnar Klavan has scored a goal, The Reds won a Merseyside derby with a late winner from said record signing, the FA have opened an investigation into an incident from that game, and the...
The Anfield Wrap’s midweek free podcast looking back on Liverpool’s Carabao Cup semi-final victory over Southampton and looking ahead to Sunday’s trip to Tottenham.
John Gibbons hosts Kev Reilly, Mike Kearney and Abigail Rudkin.
Also in the show, Neil Atkinson speaks to God Colony’s Tom Gorton about their new material and the Liverpool music scene.
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