by The Anfield Wrap | Jun 14, 2016 | Basic, Podcast, TAW Player, What We Call History
What We Call History is a look, in three or four parts, at a season from Liverpool Football Club’s past. Under the aegis of football folk historian Mike Nevin we remember why Liverpool managers, players or crowds did the things they did, how it felt to be at...
by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 25, 2016 | Basic, Podcast, TAW Player, What We Call History
WHAT we call history, nineteen eighty one, nineteen eighty two. The world was a very different place. Liverpool was being discussed in the terms of managed decline in cabinet, the polices of monetarism were hitting the country hard and Liverpool were European...
by The Anfield Wrap | Apr 3, 2016 | Basic, Podcast, TAW Player, What We Call History
MIKE Nevin and Steve Graves join Neil Atkinson for the third part of What We Call History 2006/7. Of course there’s the football – the memorable trip to the Nou Camp and the beating of Barcelona, battering Arsenal in the league at Anfield thanks to hat-trick hero...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 27, 2016 | Basic, Podcast, TAW Player, What We Call History
THE next part of the 06/07 ‘What We Call History’ has Neil Atkinson, Mike Nevin and Ben Johnson looking back to the vibe around the club – the idea that there had to be a sale to take the side forward and what that sale would end up being. Then...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 15, 2016 | Basic, Podcast, TAW Player, What We Call History
MIKE NEVIN and Ben Johnson are with Neil Atkinson as they look at 2006/7; perhaps the strangest season in Liverpool’s recent history. There was enormous expectation on the Reds that they would kick on from their 82 point season and FA Cup win in 2006 to...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 26, 2016 | Basic, Podcast, TAW Player, What We Call History
NEIL ATKINSON and Mike Nevin are joined by Paul Johnson and John Gibbons for the second part of our League Cup ‘What We Call History’ special to talk about the five remaining League Cup Finals Liverpool have played in. There is The Reds relaxed against...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 23, 2016 | Basic, Podcast, TAW Player, What We Call History
HOW better to start the week in which Liverpool face Manchester City in the Capital One Cup Final than a look back at each of their previous final appearances in this competition? In Mike Nevin and Gary Shaw we have just the men to guide you through 1978 to, 1987...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 21, 2016 | Basic, Podcast, TAW Player, What We Call History
THE concluding part of our 87/88 trilogy sees Neil Atkinson, Mike Nevin, Gary Shaw and John Mackin debate whether or not Barnes, Beardsley, Aldridge, Whelan et al formed Liverpool’s greatest ever side. They certainly agree it was Liverpool’s most...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jan 26, 2016 | Basic, Podcast, TAW Player, What We Call History
[WARNING: WE’VE TAGGED THIS SHOW NSFW BECAUSE OF THE HONEST AND FORTHRIGHT NATURE OF THE DISCUSSION AROUND JOHN BARNES AND THE CULTURE OF FOOTBALL AT THE TIME.] ONE of Liverpool’s greatest ever teams, one of Liverpool’s greatest ever managers, one of...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jan 10, 2016 | Basic, Podcast, TAW Player, What We Call History
‘WHAT We Call History’ is back with an almighty bang as Neil Atkinson, Gary Shaw and Mike Nevin tackle the behemoth season that was 1987/88. As the dust settled on Liverpool allowing Everton to steal in and win the title the previous year, Liverpool – lead by...
