The Wrap Up is our daily subscribers show bringing you all the latest news and developments from L4. On derby day John Gibbons and Phil Blundell are on hand with everything that matters LFC wise. Derby day, if that doesn’t get you excited you may as well go jump...
WITH several other journalists, I was invited to interview Phil Jagielka at a high school in Halewood ahead of the last Merseyside derby. Autumn had almost arrived and Jagielka was flourishing again in the centre of the Everton defence after what he admitted had been...
I’VE always thought the derby is a bit like going for a periodic medical. It’s not entirely necessary that it should be occurring on the particular scheduled date, but the simple fact of it happening raises blood pressure, and implies a phase of self assessment...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined by John Gibbons and Dave Downie for a TAW Player Merseyside Derby Preview Special. Listen to a free three minute clip of the show by pressing play below: [audioplayer...
THEY said it would never happen again. A once-in-a-lifetime event. An opportunity for a public display of civic unity. A chance for an entire city to stand together and say, “You know what? This is us. You can knock us down, you can walk all over us. But you won’t...
THIS week ‘The Coach Home’ starts with West Ham United and ends with Everton. A journey from the light into the dark. From joy to misery. Sorry. It is hosted by Neil Atkinson and John Gibbons and they are joined by Andy Middleton and Dave Downie. Andy is...
The Wrap Up is our daily look at the day’s LFC news stories, John Gibbons and Neil Atkinson are in for you on the day that Liverpool announced the dates of the re-arranged out home fixtures against Everton and Chelsea respectively, both now being played on a...
HERE’S how this starts: In football, as in life, you’re surrounded by hindsight. It’s everywhere, colouring your outlook, shaping your views. You can’t move for the stuff. All the opinions, all the analysis, all the outrage. All formed with hindsight. All the...
WE should really have hated Howard Kendall. We should have resented the way he took over a disjointed, demoralised Everton and led them to the pinnacle of the game, at home and abroad. We should have begrudged how he galvanised a fan base that had been crying out for...
WE’VE produced hundreds of shows and published a couple of thousand articles since The Anfield Wrap was launched four years ago. And I reckon in all that time no-one’s EVER mentioned David Burrows. “Who?” you might well say, depending on when your Liverpool-supporting...
