I’M furious. Bloody furious. Reasons:1. The manager picked the wrong team.2. The wrong team were set up in the wrong way.3. The wrong team set up in the wrong way approached and started the game in the wrong manner.4. The wrong team set up in the wrong way that...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined for this week’s City Talk Podcast by Paul Cope, Mike Girling and John Gibbons on the eve of Liverpool’s 8 goal thriller against Villa. Music this week from The Cheap Thrills and Silent Sleep. The Cheap Thrills – O Paradise...
EVERYONE remembers their first game don’t they? I think I’ve told you mine but I’ll tell you again. May 1990, I’d just turned 8 years old, and my dad had two tickets for Liverpool vs QPR at Anfield. When he showed me them they may as well have...
WITH the departure of Daniel Agger back to Brondby we asked a few Anfield Wrap regulars to make their case as to who should replace the Dane as vice-captain. NEIL ATKINSON – GLEN JONO I’M A GLEN JOHNSON man. I’m also a Jordan Henderson man but you...
ON the TAW podcast in the aftermath of Liverpool’s defeat to Manchester City, Neil Atkinson and I debated the merits of using Steven Gerrard as a defensive midfielder. My argument was – and remains – that Gerrard is one of Liverpool’s best natural finishers. He can...
NEIL Atkinson and John Gibbons speak to supporters of all of Liverpool’s top seven rivals, except Spurs, about their prospects this season along with the two North East clubs. Joined throughout by Dave Downie they find out what the hopes and expectations are for...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined for this week’s City Talk by Jim Boardman, Mike Nevin and Simon Hughes in a week of meaningless international football. Music this week from Filter Distortion and Circles. Filter Distortion – Cameras in the Dark (featuring Cheryl...
I was 14 when I first found myself within the confines of Anfield, one of just 17,228 souls present to watch the Reds dismantle Crewe Alexandra 5-1 in the Rumblelows Cup in 1990. Twenty four years later, it’s not the goals or the goalscorers that jump immediately to...
“HIS tattoo proved he was a Red.” So goes the song for the ‘greatest’, and now sadly-departed Dane. Daniel Agger became something of a trailblazer for tattooed Premier League footballers – probably the most inked community on the planet...
AN underwhelming 1-0 win over Norway was greeted by just 40,000 at Wembley tonight. Maybe England fans are finally realising what Liverpool supporters already know. But why does Roy Hodgson still have so many supporters in the media, writes PAUL CANTWELL. Way back...
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.
