Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 0 Las Palmas 0 in the final game of The Reds 2024-2025 pre-season… HAVING written some of this in advance of the final whistle, my worry is it will read far angrier than I intend it...
Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 4 Sevilla 1 in the final game of The Reds 2024-2025 pre-season… IT’S good to be back. It’s good to see you. You being both you and those wild-eyed boys that had been away....
Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 3 Manchester United 0 on the 2024-2025 pre-season tour of the USA… THE final of the three US games saw Liverpool outscore Manchester United by three goals to nil. I’m loath to...
How football and music become intertwined in our memories with past life events, and the power of nostalgia… MARTIN Phillips died this past weekend. If that name means nothing to you, he was the lead singer of the New Zealand band The Chills. If The...
Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 2 Arsenal 1 on the 2024-2025 pre-season tour of the USA… THEY got what they wanted. The trick of the mind is that Liverpool are in the US all the time. It’s actually the first...
Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 1 Real Betis 0 on the 2024-2025 pre-season tour of the USA… PITTSBURGH gets the first showing of Arne Slot’s Liverpool and Pittsburgh revels in it. We’ve had a fabulous...
What makes Jürgen Klopp perfect for the England manager job, as well as the antithesis to the identity that surrounds the position… JÜRGEN Klopp and the England job is fundamentally hard to argue against. His presence in any capacity is difficult to...
With the international tournaments now out of the way, Liverpool’s 2024-2025 pre-season begins now and the real stuff can finally resume… AND there goes the big summer tournament. Finished. Over the past month, people have been a bit upset when I’ve...
As Liverpool welcome a new manager to signal a new era for the club, Anfield is ready to embrace the future… IT felt like the longest interregnum you could imagine. Morning. We’re back, then. In all the ways. It occurred to me a few weeks back I had...
Fans of Liverpool and England would’ve been happy with Trent Alexander-Arnold’s big moment at EURO 2024, but how much will that feeling stick around? I’M made up for Trent Alexander-Arnold. Absolutely made up for him. To go through the nonsense he’s...
The Anfield Wrap’s midweek free podcast after Liverpool have been crowned champions.
Joining John Gibbons for a chat about what Liverpool might look like next season, what the rest of this season should look like and a chat about Chelsea are Ali Gunn, Mo Stewart and James Sutton.
Also in the show, John chats to Lewis Steele about the Reds and what they could do over the summer.
