by Phil Greene | Feb 17, 2016 | Footie
THE rumours began to circulate on Sunday morning. I watched, listened and read as the word spread further and further but I could not allow myself to believe it until the team-sheet was published on Twitter around 1pm Daniel Sturridge, Phil Coutinho and Roberto...
by Neil Atkinson | Jan 23, 2016 | Footie
YOU’VE got to score the second goal in the game. You’ve got to score the eighth goal in the game. Fuck it. Score the ninth goal in the game. I don’t know where my Saturday goes from here. I don’t know where your Saturday goes from here. Football...
by Michael Nevin | Jan 15, 2016 | Footie
I WAS going to write about the January transfer window this week, but as Monday rolled into Tuesday, I became progressively more underwhelmed by the prospect. Let’s face it — it’s all a bit boring and nothing much happens. Then Wednesday night and the thriller...
by Melissa Reddy | Jan 14, 2016 | Footie
FOR the most part, this felt like a throwback. A sublime South American acting as the catalyst for his side’s offensive domination. Bending the ball to his will. Straining every sinew in his body to track back and turn his team around. Always there, pressing. Always...
by Melissa Reddy | Jan 8, 2016 | Footie
ROBERTO Firmino is at school. He’s learning that he gets to keep the man-of-the-match champagne after adding his fizz to a game. Learning that he has to pay closer attention to what he posts on social media. Learning about the unabating, unforgiving nature of English...
by Ian Salmon | Jan 4, 2016 | Footie
THERE you go. Happy New Year and all that. Feeling positive about the year to come? Looking forward to all the joys that January to May has in store for a start? Nah, me neither. That thing where I come on here and spray around undiluted joy, optimism and positivity?...
by The Anfield Wrap | Dec 9, 2015 | Back Page, Podcast, TAW Player
GARETH ROBERTS was joined by Stephen Evans, Rob Gutmann and Adam Smith for this week’s BackPage with a jam-packed agenda. The lads start off with a chat about Alex Ferguson’s reported comments about Jürgen Klopp, in which he waxed lyrical about the new...
by The Anfield Wrap | Nov 24, 2015 | Footie
SO I wrote something on Roberto Firmino back in August, writes CRAIG RIMMER. To summarise, it was more or less an attempt to brand our new Brazilian idol-in-waiting as something of an exciting, if unknown, quantity — an expensive, statement signing but one with...
by Michael Nevin | Aug 14, 2015 | Footie
I’M never quite ready for the start of a new season. This year especially so, with August barely a week old before the first shots were fired. Something to do with The Euros, I believe, which irks all the more given that Hodgey’s Lions are responsible for...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 5, 2015 | Footie
ROBERTO FIRMINO feels like a statement signing, argues CRAIG RIMMER. A risk? Maybe. But a necessary one for sure, and the kind of move that Liverpool needed to make this summer. It’s a signing that achieved the dual purpose of energising the fanbase and catching the...
