A WIN is a win? Sometimes a win is a win and nothing more can be gleaned from it. Sometimes it’s worth a little bit more than that – even when it’s the type of performance that usually provokes the response that “a win is a win”. Casablanca. 1942. Starring Dirk Bogart...
NOBODY likes to admit they’re wrong do they? So hard nosed and infallible are people’s opinions on football – and I am of course generalising here – that perhaps many are afraid such an admission will destroy their reputation and credibility as a voice,...
“PRESSURE is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That’s the reward.” I don’t quote Shankly...
ANDY HEATON, stepping in for Neil Atkinson, was joined by Rob Gutmann, Gareth Roberts and Kent Riley after another defeat and look towards hopefully a return to winning ways against West Brom at the weekend Download Issue 12 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at...
FINISHING second last season meant Liverpool were back in the Champions League. We’d been out of it five years and now we were back. That great tournament that makes everything else seem a bit rubbish. It doesn’t really sink in then though. Especially when...
WITH the sun beaming on a hot August day in 2012, the future looked bright as Brendan Rodgers took charge of his first Premier League game as Liverpool manager against West Bromwich Albion, writes MATT KENNY. Much of the pre-season talk had focused on how quickly...
CATCHING one like that so late in a game always reminds me of that punch Herol ‘Bomber’ Graham took against Julian Jackson, in a WBA World Middleweight Title fight in Benalmadena, late 1990. The one where he was spark out before he hit the floor totally planked out,...
ANDY HEATON was joined by John Gibbons. Chris Maguire and Mike Girling as they reflect on a derby day draw with Everton and look towards Basel away in The Champions League Download Issue 12 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at app.theanfieldwrap.com for other devices....
NEIL ATKINSON was joined by John Gibbons, David Downie, Andy Heaton and ex Liverpool left back Stephen Warnock on the eve of the first Derby of the season Download Issue 12 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at app.theanfieldwrap.com for other devices. Like what we do? Buy...
AT his pre-West Ham press conference, Brendan Rodgers suggested that he was rather irked by all the ‘experts’ voicing their opinions on the way his team plays. That is perfectly understandable. However, I am not an expert, so here’s what I think. It...
