I LOOK across on 65 minutes or so and Raffy Gutmann, aged six, at his first final, is in tears; tears rolling down his cheeks. He’s in tears and really it isn’t unreasonable. I have no solace to offer. None whatsoever. If I was six years old I would be...
THE easiest way to win a cup final is to be the better team. Even if you can’t be the better team on the pitch in the 90 or 120 minutes, you can have the better players to win a shoot-out. Despite what people tell you about it being a lottery. Manchester City...
THERE are moments when we doubt Wembley. Like when they needlessly play semi-finals there. Like when we sense the smugness in its association with a national side we feel little affinity with. In these moments, Wembley, you seem so very far away. Then there’s the...
THESE are the moments. Let’s not deny it to ourselves. Why the game got us. Why we became locked into its ways and wiles. We’re always in it for the prizes. Scaling peaks is what sport is all about. Don’t decry any summit. A challenge is a challenge. We have risen to...
SUNDAY’S Capital One Cup final feels a bit of a weird one. A one-off showpiece occasion, with Liverpool slight underdogs against the financial might of moneybags Manchester City. And yet, it lacks the edge of a clash with more traditional rivals; the existence...
NEIL ATKINSON and Mike Nevin are joined by Paul Johnson and John Gibbons for the second part of our League Cup ‘What We Call History’ special to talk about the five remaining League Cup Finals Liverpool have played in. There is The Reds relaxed against...
HOW better to start the week in which Liverpool face Manchester City in the Capital One Cup Final than a look back at each of their previous final appearances in this competition? In Mike Nevin and Gary Shaw we have just the men to guide you through 1978 to, 1987...
SO here we are again. Stuffy faceless blokes in suits wanting to rewrite the game we love with moves that seem to benefit the few and ignore the many. This talk of scrapping FA Cup replays, consigning cup weekends to the bin with rounds played midweek instead and...
ROBBO’s article for Mirror Football caused quite the stir yesterday. Apparently suggesting that a football team should sacrifice the battle for sixth place in a bid to win a cup is quite controversial. Someone even tweeted him telling him to hang himself. Have a...
WE’RE ALL GOING TO WEMBLEY, WE’RE ALL GOING TO WEMBLEY! John Gibbons is joined by Andy Heaton for today’s Wrap Up after Liverpool have booked a place in the final of the League Cup. With cup final giddiness out the way, John and Andy chat about the...
Liverpool Beaten at Anfield by Man Cty | The Anfield Wrap
The Anfield Wrap’s weekly flagship show, after Liverpool’s 3-0 loss to Manchester City at Anfield yesterday. To discuss the game and everything in between, Neil Atkinson is joined by John Gibbons, Ian Ryan and Rob Gutmann.
Also on the show, Neil chats to the studio of Dorothy. The designers of music, film, literature and art inspired prints, products and the team that printed the backdrop to our new studio.
