Crystal Palace 3 (THREE) Liverpool 3 (THREE)

WORSE than a defeat. Come here Luis. Talk to me. Worse than a defeat. But. Blaming the centre-halves is basic. Beyond basic. A deflection. A break. And then Skrtel pushes out because no one is holding mid. Why is no one holding mid? Martin Skrtel was brilliant...
LIVERPOOL: WE. WANT. GOALS.

LIVERPOOL: WE. WANT. GOALS.

By Martin Fitzgerald I’M SO BORED OF OTHER FOOTBALL TEAMS. You wouldn’t believe how bored I am, watching them, trying to work out what they’re up to. What their game is. How what they will do will impact on us. I’m so bored of other...
LIVERPOOL: IT AIN’T OVER UNTIL IT’S OVER

LIVERPOOL: IT AIN’T OVER UNTIL IT’S OVER

I HAVE a tendency to speak – and indeed write – before I think. I find this to be one of my more endearing traits, but I can understand there may be others who disagree. Somewhere in the city there is a man named Mongoose – he has a real name but...
LIVERPOOL: AWAY WE GO AGAIN

LIVERPOOL: AWAY WE GO AGAIN

THAT was a week when everything deviated away from the idea that this wild ride of a football season was all about us. How no-one else mattered, how no-one else was relevant. Jose Mourinho made himself very relevant. He used all the dirtiest tricks at his disposal....
PODCAST: LIVE FROM LIVERPOOL SOUND CITY

PODCAST: LIVE FROM LIVERPOOL SOUND CITY

NEIL Atkinson was joined by Mike Girling, Mike Nevin, John Gibbons, Simon Hughes and Sean Rogers for a live Anfield Wrap show in front of a Liverpool Sound City audience. The panel discussed the role Everton could play in the destination of the Premier League title...

The Rider – Asparagus (This Must Be The Place?)

NEIL, Neil, John, Steph and Adam are joined by Andrew and Jonny Bongo from Farm Feast to talk about the incredible Wirral food, drink and music festival. Discussion of cheese, bees and Peter Hook ensues. As you’d expect. Add onto that the set of songs Neil...

THE RIDER SOUND CITY SPECIALS

NEIL ATKINSON, John Gibbons, Adam Melia and Stephanie Heneghan talk through their Sound City excitement and are joined by Sound City’s Dave Pichilingi and Becky Ayres to find out the inside scoop on what to look out for when. It’s emotional outcomes, John...

STICK YOUR BUSES UP YOUR A*SE

By David Segar I’VE written this a day later than I intended to because this is the first time I’ve been able to finally admit to myself that it actually happened. This Liverpool team, Brendan’s glorious bastards, it lost, actually lost, to THAT...

LET’S GET ANGRY

AS The Kop poured into the streets with leaden shoulders and a collective stooped gait, a lone voice roared above the hubbub. ‘Libpool, Libpool – top of the league. Libpool – top of the league.’ It was an act of defiance. It spoke of a heart...

LIGHT v DARK

by Dave Martinez  ‘It appears to me that the dark has a lot more territory’ THE final scene of the phenomenal HBO drama True Detective sees Woody Harrelson’s character – Marty Hart – utter that sentence with a resigned, pessimistic tone as he looks up at...