NOTHING quite like a “hard to gauge” European challenge. Salzburg are an unknown quantity. They could be mustard and yet equally they might be a bit shite. The mystery is part of the fun and feels comfortingly old school. Back in the glory years, when our first four...
While there is still strong opposition to the idea of a “European Super League”, could we see format changes to continental championships by 2024? Joining Rob Gutmann to discuss and debate are Paul Cope, Ian Ryan, Adam Smith and Kev Walsh. If you're...
LIVERPOOL are almost too perfect. At times the football is so precious that it feels like it’s inevitable that it will eventually be stolen from us. When you’re in love with a beautiful football team, it can be hard. Take Sadio Mane’s achingly delicious equaliser...
TO the more experienced Liverpool supporter there remains a level of bemusement about Manchester City and their current football swagger. As much as they try to walk the walk – and both team and manager are quite clearly among the best – the whole ‘we belong among the...
IT is a fabled story. May 26, 2005. The day after Liverpool have triumphed in the most adverse and unimaginable Champions League final in history, winning on penalties after being 0-3 down at half time to AC Milan in Istanbul. So improbable, in fact, that on the day...
SUCCESS is often perceived to be a one-dimensional concept; you either succeed or you don’t, flourish or falter, win or lose. Take athletics, for example; you’re only successful if you’re the first to cross the finish line, be it in a 100m sprint, a 5x100m relay or a...
Liverpool have won their SIXTH European Cup and it’s the day after the night before for those of us still on the continent as the dust is beginning to settle. Featuring a table full of jubilant reds it’s the third of our TAW’s travel diaries…...
It’s finally here, the day of the final and we’re on our way to the fan park, joining Andy Heaton another travel diary are Ian Ryan, Josh Sexton, Neil Atkinson, John Gibbons, Shaun Walsh and Dan Austin. Its the last one before the big one… To hear...
We’ve arrived in Madrid and after another long day of travelling, Paul Senior was joined around a table of food and beer for the latest edition of our travel diaries. Featuring a crowd of hundreds it’s the second of our TAW’s travel diaries… To...
ANOTHER year, another Champions League final. This time around, Europe hasn’t always been at the forefront of our minds, such was the intensity and longevity of our involvement in the title race. That’s a nice problem to have. But on Tuesday May 7, Barcelona came to...
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.
