Chelsea 1 Liverpool 2: Match Review

LIVERPOOL in London for the third time this season already and for the third time they are clearly the better football team; for the second time they pick up the points, their superiority deserved. It’s fast becoming a season where that looks like it will be the test....

The Pink: Chelsea 1-2 Liverpool

Our immediate post-match show is the most explosive of reactions to Liverpool’s most recent game. Recorded before the ink is close to drying, it is the show to hear The Anfield Wrap at it most full-throated whether joyous in victory or broken in defeat. The...

Chelsea 1 Liverpool 2: Match Ratings

THE gnarly, narky Reds leave London, again, with three points in the back bin. Looking more and more assured every week are Jürgen Klopp’s increasingly street-wise upstarts. Here are your ratings, then: Simon Mignolet: 7 Just doesn’t look comfortable with the ball at...

Chelsea 1 Liverpool 2: How It Happened

Liverpool beat Chelsea 2-1, but managed to make it as nervy as they possibly could in doing so. The heart rate wasn’t at a safe level for much of that. Here’s how it went, though. 18.28: Before the match it was revealed that Roberto Firmino wouldn’t...

Fantasy Football: Bread and butter

THE INTENSITY and importance of the stats comes through here in our new Fantasy Footie show. Neil Atkinson hosts with Craig Hannan, Dan Vincent and Paul Senior. As everyone finds a rhythm and a rhyme to the game, how are everyones teams doing? What results have stood...
The Rider: Stranded

The Rider: Stranded

Neil is stranded in Marrakech but it doesn’t matter because The Rider is ready to go with more great songs than it knows what to do with and the mighty John Gibbons in the chair. Steph Heneghan has an extra song this week due to its sheer brilliance and Adam...