A NUMBER of players have benefited hugely from the arrival of Jürgen Klopp at Liverpool almost six months ago, writes Joel Rabinowitz. Dejan Lovren has seemingly resurrected his career at the club, and has improved markedly from the nerve-wracked, error-prone...
INTERNATIONAL football used to be good. There were times when it wasn’t even that bad being a bit of an England fan. It’s a shame that a once-integral part of the football calendar, with an altogether different flavour is deemed so boring; so much of an inconvenience....
IT has been 113 days since Steven Gerrard posted an image of the Liverpool starting line-up that scorched Real Madrid 4-0 at Anfield in March 2009 on Instagram, simply captioned “spine.” It was clumsily cropped and of low quality, but the picture smacked you square in...
WHETHER it’s age or the work I do, I’ve become less emotionally attached to the football I watch as time has progressed. Being paid to sit in football stadiums and report on matches is a privilege. It’s the best part of the job because, for all of the talk in all of...
SUNDAY was a notable day for local players in the north west of England. At 1:30pm, Scouser Jon Flanagan was leading out Liverpool as captain for the first time. A few hours later an 18-year-old striker from Wythenshawe was scoring the winning goal in the Manchester...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined by Dan Vincent, John Gibbons and Jonathan Northcroft for a rather deflated free podcast after Liverpool contrived to throwaway a two-goal lead against Southampton. The group chat about why they think Liverpool collapsed so badly in the space...
BEING brutally honest with you I’m not entirely sure where to start with that one. Liverpool were simply so dominant but every change made Liverpool weaker while every change made Southampton stronger. Normally you walk out of away grounds and just keep your...
HOW annoying. At half-time we are all laughing and joking and picturing Flanno lifting the Premier League trophy in 2017. At full time we’ve thrown it away, a limp second-half performance that only looked like finishing one way after The Saints equalised. For...
Stonehenge Where the dogs bark and the cats meow I will take you there I will show you how – D. St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap 1981 STONEHENGE is on the way to Southampton. Just outside Salisbury. It takes forever to get from Liverpool to Southampton so you look for...
NEIL ATKINSON, Rob Gutmann and John Gibbons have a lovely big talk about Liverpool beating Manchester United 1-1. All the performances get some lovely talk but especially those of Milner, Clyne, Sakho, Lovren and Origi on this week’s FREE ‘Friday...
The Anfield Wrap’s pre match show ahead of Liverpool’s trip to Villa Park to face Aston Villa in the Premier League.
Ian Ryan hosts Josh Sexton, Gregg Munikwa and Sean Rogers.
Also in the show, John Gibbons chats to Tom Fahy about Friday nights game and Neil Atkinson talks to Les Wright and Danny Smith about their charity 5-a-side fundraiser in June.
