By Rob McDonald SOMETHING is really bothering me. This isn’t particularly new; things are always bothering me. However, it’s the start of this season that is really bothering me. All I can keep thinking about is last season. Not the end bit – the dead good bit – but...
AT his pre-West Ham press conference, Brendan Rodgers suggested that he was rather irked by all the ‘experts’ voicing their opinions on the way his team plays. That is perfectly understandable. However, I am not an expert, so here’s what I think. It...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined for this weeks podcast by Mike Girling, John Gibbons, Steven Scragg and Boro supporter Daniel Gray in the aftermath of 3rd league defeat for Liverpool against West Ham. Download Issue 12 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at...
LIVERPOOL under perform. They need a holding midfielder. Liverpool lose. They need a holding midfielder. Liverpool lose two on the bounce. They are crying out for a holding midfielder. There’s a problem here between what people want and the reality which is in...
SATURDAY was a bad day to invest in a bottle of Bailey’s. It tastes like milk, but it has the anaesthetic properties of a sledgehammer. Now let’s get things clear, not all in the Liverpool FC garden is rosy, but neither is all in the garden covered in horse shit. I...
WHERE do you start after that? Well, I’ll begin with the mitigating circumstances. Sturridge is a massive, massive miss. As big a miss as the departed Suarez. Allen is out. Emre Can, though we know nothing of his aptitude, is out. Today, Skrtel was returning after a...
THIS has become, perhaps too quickly, perhaps unfairly, the biggest challenge of Brendan Rodgers’s Liverpool career. Liverpool have for the second time lost consecutive games under Brendan Rodgers. The previous two were against the sides that finished 1st and...
LONG-TIME listeners to The Anfield Wrap will know that Neil Atkinson hates talking about referees.Understandably so. With the current crop it becomes boring, frustrating and oh so repetitive. Sometimes, though, it’s a conversation that needs to be had....
By Dan Lett LIKE any Liverpool supporter, I will never forget my first European adventure. It was in Spain, I was eight years old, and the match was the 1986 FA Cup final. My dad and I had a great pair of seats at the poolside bar of the Hotel Club Cartago in Ibiza....
NEIL ATKINSON was joined by Steve Graves, Alison McGovern and Jonathan Northcroft in this week’s CityTalk podcast as they chat about Liverpool’s Champions League return and the trip to Upton Park. Music this week from KOF and Carl Moorcroft. KOF –...
Dan Hewitt On His Book ‘Left To Rot’ | TAW Special
Neil Atkinson is joined by ITV investigations Editor Dan Hewitt to talk about his book ‘Left To Rot – How Governments Have Betrayed Us and How We Fix It’, a book that looks at the UK housing crisis and what led to it.
