by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 6, 2011 | Footie
ONE campaign that always unites supporters of both of Merseyside’s Premier League clubs is a campaign that has been going for 22 years and remains as strong now as it was the day it began. The Sun’s editor in 1989, Kelvin MacKenzie, chose to run with a pack of lies...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 5, 2011 | Podcast
Host Neil Atkinson looks at the ins and outs at Anfield with help from Andy Heaton, Jim Boardman, Rob Guttman, Kristian Walsh and The Farm’s Peter Hooton. The lads also discuss the transfer window, what to expect from Stoke, as well as the upcoming Don’t...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 30, 2011 | Footie
Libya was in the news along with its leader Muammar Gaddafi as he presided over a parade of Soviet military hardware in Tripoli. The show, including 200 new tanks, was intended to mark the fifth anniversary of the coup that had given Gadaffi his power. In football it...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 29, 2011 | Footie
Reluctant Champion: The Authorised Biography By Andrew Fagan and Mark Platt ‘When you are in the football business there are only two ways to go and you are better to be a hero than a villain . . . Joe was definitely a hero.’ Kenny Dalglish ‘No disrespect to...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 29, 2011 | Podcast
HOST Neil Atkinson is joined by messers Walsh, McKenna, Martin, Guttman, Girling, Radio Merseyside’s Peter McDowall and LFC TV’s Mark Platt. The crew discuss all things Liverpool: Exeter, Bolton, the day Manchester ran riot in London and Joe Fagan’s...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 24, 2011 | Footie
At the time of writing over 120,000 people have signed the Government e-petition asking for full disclosure of all government documents relating to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. This means the case must now legally be discussed in the commons. If you haven’t...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 23, 2011 | Footie
A quick glance at the TV listings for this week in 1984 uncovers a long-forgotten memory that Tom O’Connor actually had his own show on BBC2. This was when Channel 4 soap Brookside was still in its early days with “George determined to track down Tommy...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 22, 2011 | Podcast
HOST Neil Atkinson is this week joined by Chris Brereton, Jay McKenna, Kristian Walsh, Mike Girling, Rob Gutmann, Jim Boardman and Stephen Martin as they discuss the Arsenal performance, what we can take from it and where we can improve. The lads also touch on the...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 15, 2011 | Podcast
HOST Neil Atkinson is joined by Rob Gutmann, Rory Smith of The Telegraph, Jim Boardman, Gareth Roberts, Phil Blundell and Kristian Walsh in our second episode as they discuss the damp squib which was the Sunderland game, review the weekend’s other fixtures,...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 15, 2011 | Footie
Thirty Years On, Has Anything Changed? While many people reading this won’t have seen the League Trophy at Anfield, a few of us here at TheAnfieldWrap have witnessed the memory several times. This last week has seen a few things that have reminded us of days gone by....
