NEIL ATKINSON was joined on this week’s podcast by Chris Maguire, Steve Graves and Mike Nevin in the happy afterglow of another away thumping of Tottenham. Download Issue 11 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at app.theanfieldwrap.com for other devices. Like what we...
I PRESUMED that we’d seen the last of it. When Luis Suarez departed for pastures new, the chances of Liverpool regularly starting matches with two strikers simultaneously appeared remote. They looked remoter still when you factored in the the £20m acquisition of Lazar...
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...
ACCENTUATE the positives, eliminate the negatives. That’s exactly what Liverpool did during the second half of last season. Brendan Rodgers’ team was far from perfect during 2013-14 but – crucially – as the season went on he got them focused on what they could do...
By Tarek Pertew WE’RE going to score 90+ goals this season. Here’s how. Much has been said regarding the return to stature of Liverpool Football Club under the attack minded Brendan Rodgers. On the back of Luis Suarez’s record 31 goals, the Reds relied...
SHORTLY before the World Cup started, Adrian Chiles, who would go on to present ITV’s coverage of the tournament, relayed an anecdote to the Radio Times. In it he told of the occasion a couple of years ago when Sam Merriman, the young nephew of a friend, bumped into a...
AND SO Steven Gerrard has announced his retirement from international football 14 years after making his debut v Ukraine in 2000. Although many Liverpool fans will be thankful if it means squeezing a few more years out of his legs to play for the Reds, I think the...
MANY Reds looked to the heavens before Liverpool took to the pitch on Sunday. Despite all the bravado, we needed a miracle to win the Premier League. But rather than a thumbs up from the big guy above, instead we saw a small plane buzzing around Anfield carrying a...
Steve Gerrard, Gerrard He slipped on his f***ing arse He gave it to Demba Ba Steve Gerrard, Gerrard. AND with that nifty little ditty, any conflicting feelings I had about England at this summer’s World Cup all but vanished. The last time that I actively wanted the...
By Martin Fitzgerald I’M SO BORED OF OTHER FOOTBALL TEAMS. You wouldn’t believe how bored I am, watching them, trying to work out what they’re up to. What their game is. How what they will do will impact on us. I’m so bored of other...
