by Gareth Roberts | Aug 13, 2013 | Footie
THREE years ago this month, Martin Broughton, Chelsea season ticket holder and then chairman of Liverpool Football Club, was reportedly assessing six bidders’ credentials to take over from Tom Hicks and George Gillett, the carpetbaggers who in just three years as...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 12, 2013 | Podcast
Neil, Kris Walsh and Paul Cope get on the Liverpool pre-season rollercoaster. Direct link to PODCAST: PESSIMISM/OPTIMISM Podcast RSS feed iTunes [smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/theanfieldwrap/PODCAST_-_PESSIMISMOPTIMISM.m4a”...
by Karl Coppack | Aug 12, 2013 | Footie
It’s October 2006 and I’m stood outside of an Irish bar in Bordeaux. This is the wine capital of the world and I’m here with about twenty of my mates outside of a ramshackle Irish bar because they sell John Smiths. I have been outvoted. I shake my...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 8, 2013 | Footie
By Barrie White The moment Luis Suarez sank his teeth into Branislav Ivanovic on April 21, the fog that engulfed many Liverpool fans began the slow process of lifting – a process only grinding to a halt in light of the interview given this week stating his desire to...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 8, 2013 | Footie
Before TAW went Down Under we recorded the radio show well in advance of its Friday night broadcast. Neil went out of his way to make sure it wasn’t time sensitive in any way – and so we’ve really put that to the test by, er, deliberately delaying...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 7, 2013 | Podcast
John Gibbons is back as he, Steh and Adam talk to Jessica from Summer Cannibals and she understands almost a healthy amount of what is said most of which is praise for their excellent “No Makeup” album. Elsewhere they talk about Australia, Spain and...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 7, 2013 | Footie
IT makes no odds. I understand why people think it does. I understand the recourse to emotion. That’s the aim. It makes no odds. When he ran out on Saturday Suarez may have been surprised by the warmth of the response. I suspect his agent was. I suspect it made him...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 6, 2013 | Footie
This, belatedly, is the CityTalk podcast from last Friday, August 2nd. It”s dead late. Soz. Neil Atkinson was joined in the sunshine up the tower by Ben Johnson and Paul Cope and they spoke to Rory Smith of The Times on the phone in part two. It was the eve of...
by Roy Henderson | Aug 5, 2013 | Footie
Your football club, it gets up in the morning, and once it’s just about regained some idea of where it is, it rolls to its feet, picks its boxer shorts out of its arse, and staggers to the bathroom mirror. Maybe it does all this with a little Gareth...
by The Anfield Wrap | Aug 5, 2013 | Podcast
Neil, Nick O’Prey and Gareth Roberts discuss the latest friendly, Diego Costa, and how it all fits together. Tickets for TAW:DUBLIN PROPER Direct link to PODCAST: THE DESOLATE NORTH Podcast RSS feed iTunes [smart_track_player...