“NEVIN! Where’s your bloody kit?” “Sorry Sir, forgot it (again)”. My classmates trudged off onto the cold, windswept rugby pitch while I tried to avoid a beating. Where school rugby was concerned I was in a state of permanent futuristic forgetfulness and panic,...
WHAT do you think of Michael Owen? It’s a question that has been popping into my head pretty frequently over the past couple of weeks for various reasons. I’ve noticed myself subconsciously referencing him on multiple occasions and, when I do, the collective reaction...
SATURDAY was good fun, wasn’t it? They say a rolling stone gathers no moss. Well I wish it fucking would. I wish it would roll like fuck and clatter into auld Jonny Moss, gather him up like a trodden-on snail and dump him right in the river. That said, it would...
AS far as sucker punches go, that’s up there. Liverpool were absolutely undressed by Manchester City in a manner that demands an immediate response. But fuck the result. Having been clearly the better side for most of the opening period the game was taken away...
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Weekender: ESL, Newcastle & The Next Generation
John Gibbons hosts Lizzi Doyle, Kev Walsh and Phil Blundell to look back over the week’s Super League madness and ahead to Newcastle.
Also on the show, Harrison Worden hosts a panel of young Anfield Wrap stars in Chloe Bloxam, Cam Rimmer and Sam Evans to talk about the impact of the European Super League situation in reference to the next generation of Liverpool fans and football fans in general.
And lastly, Neil Atkinson speaks to author and journalist Michael Calvin about his new book ‘Whose Game Is It Anyway? Football, Life, Love & Loss’ written about football’s much-changed relationship with fans at the height of the pandemic which has become even more apt after the events of this past week.
