I READ with interest Richard Felton’s emotionally-charged piece on TAW yesterday about how he’d made the life-changing decision to eschew his love for Liverpool Football Club and instead follow non-league Marine. Such was Richard’s evident disillusionment with the...
THE photographer’s car keys lay hidden high on a ledge in a Melwood anteroom for most of the afternoon. I had long returned home when my mobile phone started buzzing. “Where are they, lad?” “What?” I asked. “The keys, you’ve done something with them haven’t you?” With...
PARTNERSHIPS is a word I have heard a lot on our shows in the last week or two, to the extent that I realised it has somewhat slipped out of vogue. This week on part 1 of the 85-86 version of What We Call History, Mike Nevin spoke as eloquently as ever on the strength...
The Rider is recording early because Adam Melia is going on holiday. This means there is no Stephanie Heneghan but there is the book game where Neil Atkinson and John Gibbons try to guess what books Adam will want to take with him. There is also ten great songs which...
NEIL ATKINSON is joined by Swansea supporter and fanzine editor Stephen Carroll and Man City supporter Mike Clapham to talk about both sides’s excellent start to the campaign.
LOADS have done it — given up going the match. Temporarily or permanently, whether it’s the rise in ticket prices, the ‘match-day experience’ or just falling out of love with it all, the make up of the Anfield crowd has changed as long-term...
THE ANFIELD WRAP through John Gibbons has ended up inside the Soccerex convention. John is the Midnight Caller, an agent on the inside reporting on the goings on and what the football industry means when they say fan engagement. It’s, er, unlikely fayre from The...
JUST when you thought Liverpool were going to come out swinging, they throw the towel in. Just when you thought the Reds were going to puff out their chests and swagger around the country taking on all comers, they cowered in the corner and let the East Enders...
DURING the longest international break in history, on this week’s podcast we pose the question: “What should the ideal season look like?” Answering that with Neil Atkinson are James McKenna, Ste Evans and Gareth Roberts. Surprising at times, the four...
