Understanding Football: A Professional's Perspective
The thing that talking to people in football does for you is make you realise how little you know about the game. Many professionals see things in an instant that take us lesser mortals ages to work out.
The Insider's View: Tony Adams and Match Reporting
I’ll give you a couple of...
January Transfer Window: Don't be obsessed with signing new players
We’re well into the transfer window. It's something, like dry January, that I have no truck with. Yet still the question comes from almost every Red I meet: who are we going to sign?
The simple answer is I have no idea, nor will I be...
Well, 2023 has been a strange one. To turn around Sven-Goran Eriksson’s cliche: first half not so good, second half good.
At times last season it looked as if the Jurgen Klopp era was coming towards an end. Anfield was an unhappy place. It never quite reached the stage where the internal grumbling became a...
10K Up at Anfield Index
Tony Evans' Column today marks article number 10,000 here on Anfield Index. There have many iterations of the website during that period and we are part-way through the latest rebuild, thanks to all the writers and editors who have contributed over the years and most importantly to all the readers...
Football's Televisual Shift
It hurts those of us of a certain age, but we have to accept that football is now a primarily televisual game. The fans in the stadium become less important by the year.
Except… the struggle for owners and marketeers is that atmosphere matters. People want to watch Liverpool across the world in...
Quiet Times at Anfield: Stability Reigns
This is one of those few, brief times in the life of a Liverpool fan when things seem too quiet. Everything is pretty stable, the team seems to be going in the right direction and the roller coaster has hit a flat stretch of track.
Since the return from the...
Let's Play The Yes/No Game
Yes, Liverpool were screwed by the officiating at White Hart Lane.
No, don’t expect support from fans of other teams even though everyone has a horror story about referees/VAR.
Yes, the entire refereeing system needs an overhaul.
No, Curtis Jones’s red card should not have been rescinded. It’s marginal but you’d go for...
Liverpool's Tactical Mastery Under Jurgen Klopp
Klopp’s Substitution Strategy
Does it matter that Liverpool have conceded first in four of their six games this season? Well, it’s not ideal. Slow starts leave you vulnerable. Yet, when you look at the tables – the Premier League and Europa League standings – the point tallies indicate that Jurgen...
Transfer Window Tensions
Just six days of relentless bedwetting to go before the transfer window closes. And if things go wrong at St James’ Park, mattresses will be soaked like never before.
Chelsea and Bournemouth both looked like mid-table teams. Newcastle United are a different proposition. They are equipped to exploit Liverpool’s flaws. Yet there’s no...
Criticism and Support for Henderson
Too many words have been written about Jordan Henderson. Even so, it’s crucial to make a point.
There is only one reason to criticise the 33-year-old. He went out of his way to support the LGBTQ+ community on a number of occasions. It’s impossible to reconcile this public stance with accepting...
