WE are the champions, the champions of Europe. Jürgen Klopp said he wanted us to forget about Madrid after pre season. Well soz abar us. Anfield wanted a party and the players wanted to entertain. A celebration of brilliance and excellence was what we were served up...
IT’S time. When football is handed back to us. When it becomes ours once more. When what happens in the ground tops anything else. How it should be. The close season has always been barren by definition; a period pre-internet (stick with it, kids) that once featured...
I’VE always felt that the first game of a new season is the most special. I’ll bore on about it at the beginning of each new campaign. The first fixture is the one to be most eagerly anticipated. There’s something timelessly pure about the moment just before the first...
HOW was your break? Did you have one? Go anywhere nice? There are people who can’t have footballing holidays. For them there’s no respite once the final ball of the season has been kicked or, in our case, the trophy has been lifted to an expectant crowd one more time...
WELL, I had a lovely Champions of Europe summer. How was yours? In the years in between World Cups and European Championships, the summer break usually drags on unmercilessly, but by the time I had finished watching all the footage from Madrid, it was the end of July....
YOU can imagine that it was meant to be a showpiece, a show off for Liverpool’s owners. They deserve one of them broadly speaking. We’ll always want more, always want to grow, always want to push on. But they have done the business on the pitch and...
The season is barely over and already everybody is look towards what the Champions Of Europe could achieve in 2019/20. Joining John Gibbons are Gareth Roberts, Paul Cope, Craig Hannan and Jake Clay. To listen to AFQ football, where we are answer YOUR questions...
It’s back! We’re putting the power of Liverpool’s summer transfer spend in the hands of a 3 select groups of TAW contributors to see how they manage balancing the books and the wage bill to improve the Champions Of Europe going into 2019/20. In our third show of this...
They only went and did it, Liverpool are SIX times Champions Of Europe. John Gibbons is joined for a look-back at an incredible season by Lizzi Doyle, Dan Morgan and Paul Cope. Also in the show, Neil Atkinson chats to Michael Cox about his book ‘Zonal...
It’s back! We’re putting the power of Liverpool’s summer transfer spend in the hands of a 3 select groups of TAW contributors to see how they manage balancing the books and the wage bill to improve the Champions Of Europe going into 2019/20. In our second show of this...
Liverpool Sign Off Pre Season With A Win But Still Work To Do | The Anfield Wrap
Liverpool finished their pre-season with a confident win over Cesc Fabregas’s Como at Anfield with Jérémy Jacquet marking his first appearance with a confident assured display, but with the Reds squad still lacking depth and quality and with less than a week until Liverpool travel to Tyneside for their season opener against Newcastle, can Liverpool do what is required in the transfer market to give Andoni Iraola the best chance of having a successfully debut season?
Also in the show, Neil speaks to Matt Parrish, CEO of the Liverpool FC Foundation about what they do when they join the squad on pre-season tours
On this week’s show Neil Atkinson is joined by Tom Muscatelli, Kieran Molyneux and John Gibbons.
