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...
WHEN the most successful manager in the history of Everton Football Club passes away, thoughts inevitably turn to Liverpool FC’s relationship with our city rivals. It was a nice touch to see so many tributes to Howard Kendall over the weekend, with many Reds...
ROB GUTMANN, Neil Atkinson and Ben Johnson try to answer the age old question, who do you want to win when Everton play Manchester United? The Liverpool Echo’s David Prentice knows. He supports Everton, and is waxing lyrical on how Everton’s young...
THE POST MATCH Pink includes an explanation of why The Pink is called The Pink before a thorough going through of Liverpool’s draw with Everton. To talk us through this are Phil Blundell, Rob Gutmann, Paul Senior and Dave Downie. It’s the only post match...
A draw was probably a fair result. A draw isn’t actually a bad result. But you are allowed to win when you don’t deserve to. You are allowed to win at tough places. Liverpool don’t know how to do either. They also don’t know how to hold on to a...
THE 225th Merseyside Derby then. Got to be honest, I haven’t got a clue how it’s going to pan out, my head’s a bit done in with The Reds at the moment. It’s funny, though, how confident some Blues are about bagging their first win over us since...
GOODISON is something of a guilty pleasure for me. I don’t like to say it out loud too often but it’s a ground with a wonderful feel to it. I like the way it smells. That’s the timber not the Blues. It’s a living museum. One of the last links to another age of...
THIS takes me back to February 1986. I’m walking to the ground with my mate Chee on our way to watch Liverpool and Manchester United play out a 1-1 draw. It was the day of the gas attack thing, and it was all about to kick off in the Main Stand car park, but at the...
Jean-Philippe Mateta Linked With Liverpool: The Gutter
On today’s show, we react to the news coming out of France linking Liverpool with Crystal Palace striker Jean-Philippe Mateta as before a chat about potential suitors for Harvey Elliott.Neil Atkinson hosts Phil Blundell, Jake Nolan and Neil Docking.
