A MESSAGE FROM A MANC

By Patrick John THIS is likely to get me battered in Bowdon, clattered in Collyhurst and walloped in Whalley Range. But here goes anyway – I’m a Manchester United fan and (stick with it) I really haven’t got a problem with Liverpool. There, I’ve said it. Huge club,...

WIN A COPY OF ‘LIVERPOOL HEROES’

Liverpool Heroes is a unique portrait of what life is really like playing for one of the world’s biggest football clubs. Writer and female journalist Ragnhild Lund Ansnes has spent two years getting to know many of the greatest legends who played for the Reds...

The Anfield Wrap – Episode Thirty-Nine

Nothing to be done, nothing to be done. Neil reluctantly talks about missed chances, Liverpool’s 1-0 defeat to West Brom and Jordan Henderson with Rob, Mike, Kristian, Jim, Peter Hooton, Alex Koschier and Ragnhild ‘Ronnie’ Lund Ansnes. Ronnie helps...

GIG REVIEW: THE SOUND OF GUNS

By Andy Thornley Sound of Guns – Cargo, London (Thursday 19 April) Have you heard The Sound of Guns? No, I’m not a bizzy conducting door to door enquires – I’m talking about the scouse band that’s been causing a splash on the music scene of late. The Anfield Wrap sent...

THE ANFIELD WRAP ON CITY TALK #6

THE HODGE FILES Neil is joined by Rob Gutmann, Jim Boardman and special guest and BBC sport journalist Ben Smith as they pick the bones out of the impending Wembley travel chaos before moving on to West Brom at the weekend and the return of the Roy Hodgson. TAW ON...

My Slovak moment

By Andy Thornley I DID something incredibly stupid on Sunday. I ran a marathon. Making the ultimate cardinal sin of failing to check the fixture guide before agreeing to something, I booked myself and the missus in to 26.2 miles of pain, taking place over in Paris. I...

THE ANFIELD WRAP – EPISODE 38

TELL ME MA, ME MA……… Neil is joined by a skeleton staff today as Rob, Sean, Kristian, Andy and Scot Williams celebrate ANOTHER victory over Everton before touching on FSG, Comolli, the 23rd Hillsborough memorial, Chelsea and Alan Davies. #TAW38 GET...

Hillsborough. Memories of 23 years ago.

By Simon Ellis-Jones Producer, World Football Focus, BBC Sport HILLSBOROUGH. The word is tough to write, even harder to say out loud. Twenty-three years have passed since that day. A huge number of football fans going to games this week will not even have been born...

THE ANFIELD WRAP REDS v BLUES CityTalk SPECIAL

Neil chaired a 90 minute four v four special in the lead up to the biggest derby in decades as Gareth Roberts, Paul Smith Jr, James Pearce and Mike Girling squared up against Greg O’Keeffe, Peter McPartland, David Downie and Mick Callaway Essential listening for...