Our Fantasy Football show has everyone a bag of nerves and a deal concluded on air. In the studio Neil Atkinson is joined by Ian Ryan, Joel Richards and Rob Gutmann. Stephen Schiller joins over the phone. Who is hot and who is not? All is within…
WHAT are the qualities that make somebody the ideal candidate to captain a football team? Leadership is the first that springs to mind, but what’s the best way to demonstrate leadership on a football pitch? Is it being vocal, barking orders at teammates, letting them...
WHEN I was young I had a dream. Like most people who support Liverpool FC I dreamed of pulling on the red jersey and running out onto the hallowed Anfield turf as You’ll Never Walk Alone is being belted out by the sell-out crowd, writes PHILIPPA SMALLWOOD. I have...
THE Reds travel to Newcastle to face Rafa Benitez’s side who have won three and lost three so far in their Premier League return. Josh Sexton is joined by Gareth Roberts, Mo Stewart and Ian Ryan to react to Jürgen Klopp’s pre-match press conference. Neil...
SO, Liverpool and Newcastle this weekend. Without question, the starkest, most aesthetically-pleasing collision of football colours. The statement flamboyance of all red against the sterner but similarly striking black and white stripes. A dream for the fantasist and...
Another guest. They don’t stop coming. A few weeks back Ghostpoet joined The Rider over the phone for a lovely chat about Margate, his new album and the tour which accompanies it and we got stuck right in with him. It was a belter; just like Dark Days &...
I’M not sure I can quite recall a spell like this. The performances from the start of the season up until now have been fairly consistent. 10 games that Liverpool have dominated, bar one (at Manchester City where we had to play with 10 men for most of the...
The game of the weekend is Chelsea/Manchester City and it is this one we focus upon on this week’s Friday Show. Its a game which will give the table shape, but will that shape come for a number of sides up and down the league? Neil Atkinson hosts and is joined...
STEPHEN Warnock is back in The Anfield Wrap studio for The Pro View. Joined by Gareth Roberts and Paul Cope, the Burton Albion defender, now with more than 500 professional games under his belt, first talks about how things are panning out under Nigel Clough. It’s...
