CITYTALK – SMILE BECAUSE IT HAPPENED

ANDY HEATON was joined by John Gibbons, Lee O’Connor and Paul Cope for this week’s TAW on CityTalk. Download Issue 10 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at app.theanfieldwrap.com for other devices. Like what we do? Buy us a pint! DIRECT LINK TO CITYTALK –...
PODCAST – SHOULDERING ON

PODCAST – SHOULDERING ON

NEIL ATKINSON and John Gibbons were joined by Si Steers and and Karl Coppack in another TAW World Cup special with debate also inevitably focusing on Luis Suarez’s ban following his latest biting incident. Podcast also includes last week’s City Talk show....

AUSTRALIA (V) – COMPARE AND CONTRAST

COMPARE and contrast the following statements. Both were made by managers whose teams finished bottom of their qualifying group at World Cup 2014. Statement A “We feel emotional because the fact is we wanted to do so well in the tournament, to get out of the group. We...
COLOMBIA III:  JAMES & JOHNNY

COLOMBIA III: JAMES & JOHNNY

JAMES Rodríguez. What a footballer, writes CRAIG RIMMER. I could choose to write about Colombia, and how they have made impressively light work of Greece, Ivory Coast and Japan, and are one of just three teams to claim a maximum nine points. But, I’d rather just write...

WHY SHOULD LIVERPOOL SELL LUIS SUAREZ?

IT’S hard to add to the debate on Luis Suarez, if for no other reason than Neil Atkinson boxed it off with a brilliant article the other day. The only thing I’d add to Neil’s piece is that Liverpool should not sell Suarez. Why should they? If Real Madrid, for...
Brazil: Three Confessions

Brazil: Three Confessions

By Ben McCausland THIS ARTICLE will be used to confess to a few embarrassing sins, but bear in mind that I told you about these sins, so you can’t hold these against me in the future. Confession #1 – Sometimes I Read The Daily Mail I know, I know....

Australia (IV) – Lipstick on the telly

MY earliest meaningful world cup memory is of my beloved Scotland being pitted against Brazil in 1982, in Seville, on a balmy, sweltering Spanish night. Minutes into the tie, the ball dropped into the inside right channel from a knock down from John Wark. The...

Australia (III) – Chile

AUSTRALIA’S 3-1 loss to Chile in their opening Group B game the other night bore out pretty much everything our Aussie correspondents had to tell us about their team in the last few weeks. I asked TAW regular Andy Gargett for his take on things after the game....