SINCE featuring music on The Anfield Wrap’s City Talk podcast, the band that we have had the greatest positive response to has been The Tea Street Band. So I met up with singer Timo Tierney and keyboard player James Albertina for a brew to talk music and their...
THE HODGE FILES Neil is joined by Rob Gutmann, Jim Boardman and special guest and BBC sport journalist Ben Smith as they pick the bones out of the impending Wembley travel chaos before moving on to West Brom at the weekend and the return of the Roy Hodgson. TAW ON...
Here we are. A labour of love. Well, not love. Most definitely not love. But a labour. This is my friend Ben Johnson’s (@benjanijohnson on Twitter) Hodge File. It isn’t definitive. He only started maintaining it when he realised exactly what we were dealing with when...
By Karl Coppack A thread on a Liverpool forum recently asked if LFC are becoming hated. The opening post read… “Ahead of today’s game Moyes had been saying that neutrals want Everton to win. Now I know he’s playing games but it got me thinking, I...
On a couple of podcasts recently I’ve been discussing the short film I’ve written and produced called “Pro”. Pro is the story of a fictional footballer, Thomas Ryder, who gets himself into a spot of bother on Twitter and who is being quietly stalked by a...
THE football bubble is simple. In it, anything goes. People think and act differently. They take leave of their senses. Common sense goes out of the window. Dignity is forgotten; respect means nothing. Abuse is fine in the bubble. Ditto racism, violence and bigotry....
By Andy Thornley I DID something incredibly stupid on Sunday. I ran a marathon. Making the ultimate cardinal sin of failing to check the fixture guide before agreeing to something, I booked myself and the missus in to 26.2 miles of pain, taking place over in Paris. I...
By Victoria Collins THIS YEAR’S Resurrection festival showcased some of Merseyside’s most talented up-and-coming acts. The variety of groups performing this year offered an eclectic sound which seemed to really reflect the different sounds knocking about Liverpool at...
TELL ME MA, ME MA……… Neil is joined by a skeleton staff today as Rob, Sean, Kristian, Andy and Scot Williams celebrate ANOTHER victory over Everton before touching on FSG, Comolli, the 23rd Hillsborough memorial, Chelsea and Alan Davies. #TAW38 GET...
TWENTY THREE years. Or 8,401 days. Or 201, 624 hours. Whatever way you look at it, it’s a heck of a long time to go without the truth about why a loved one needlessly died. A son, a daughter, a brother, a sister, a dad, a grandad. Cruelly snatched away by a...
Is Bournemouth A Must Win For Liverpool? | Friday Live!
It’s ‘Friday Live’ ahead of Liverpool trip to Bournemouth on Sunday to preview the Reds trip to the Vitality Stadium, a trip described, maybe prematurely by some, as ‘must win’ and Neil Atkinson is joined in the studio by Grace Mailey, Josh Williams and John Gibbons to have a look ahead to Sunday as well as the other key fixtures over the weekend.
