“WE don’t draw up a season and say the best way to go through it is to go out of all the cup competitions early. “Now it is closer to the end of the season and it is allowed to go out of the Champions League without even trying to go through? That’s really mad.”...
WE’VE been in Munich since Monday night and very much enjoyed what it has to offer. I’m on pretzels, many. Sausages, many. Beers as big as my head, very, very many. Sleep, not so much. But today the serious business starts. It can be possible on a European...
IN 1981, Liverpool went to Munich having drawn 0-0 in a first leg at Anfield in a European Cup semi final. Liverpool weren’t fancied. Liverpool weren’t playing well that season. The German side were confident. I was 14 in 1981 and I was having a difficult time too. I...
IS this the least important really important game we’ve played all season? Bear with me. We’re all in for this league title. The Reds may not win it but the attitude has to remain that they’ll die trying. Of course we want to win the league and the Champions League,...
JÜRGEN Klopp has used a line a few times while at Liverpool about a match being one he would pay to watch if he was a punter. I like that line because sometimes you wonder how it is to be on the inside of football. Anything – no matter how good you perceive it to be –...
Liverpool, currently the most in-form team in Europe, sit atop the Premier League table and are through to the knock-out stages of The Champions League after a momentous November and December. But can they keep going at such unrelenting pace? Joining Rob Gutmann to...
IT’S an odd competition at times, the Champions League. Its group phase is unsettling. The matches are all obviously very important. They must be, as teams — especially those in the Premier League — have sweated nine long months to qualify for them. Yet...
IT’S a bigger game than we’d budgeted for. Yes, when the draw was made it was appreciated that a bum hand had been dealt, but still. Liverpool are often careless in Champions League group stage games, but now is not a time for regrets as we approach the decisive...
WE take the name of our opponents for granted. A touch of context is all we require. Red Star Belgrade have been a background presence in my European football consciousness since as long as I can recall. But I’ve never once paused for thought to consider their name....
IT’S turning out to be a strange old season, this one. I genuinely don’t know how I feel about it. I mean, I’m happy, I think. Yeah, I must be. A good barometer of my football contentedness is my inclination to watch other teams play football. I’m watching any old...
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.
