‘The Pink’ features Neil Atkinson, John Gibbons, Philippa Smallwood and Ben Johnson talk about Liverpool’s 2-0 win against Sunderland and their 2-2 capitulation that followed the 77th minute walk out. That walk out is discussed, Liverpool being a...
IF you leave on 77 minutes it’s hard to do this. If you leave on 77 in THAT game it’s even harder. We were 2-0 up and playing well and then, by all accounts, all that went out the window. It shows a mental weakness in the team and a defensive fragility we...
WE all realise we live in a world gone mad. That much can be taken as wrote. Football went looney some time in the 1990s. Let’s not try and name the date. There was a time when people just went to football matches. Like it was the most natural thing in the world to...
WHEN I think about Liverpool Football Club at the moment I can’t make my mind up whether my overwhelming feeling is one of sadness or disillusionment. On the pitch things aren’t going great, that goes without saying. But it’s the off-field issues that are causing me...
THE midweek defeat at Leicester underlined the myriad problems facing Jürgen Klopp. Liverpool continue to languish in eighth place in the Premier League, 11 points adrift of Champions League football. With each passing week, and every uninspiring performance, it...
IN April 2013, the day after Luis Suarez’s bite on Branislav Ivanovic, I wrote a piece on The Anfield Wrap called ‘The Weekend’s Lowest Point’. The basic gist was that I was angry at Manchester United quietly winning another league title while Liverpool once again...
WITH a lingering Leicester hangover still to be shaken, Neil Atkinson, Ian Salmon and Gareth Roberts climb the Radio City Tower for this weeks CityTalk show to talk about the brush off from The Foxes, agricultural Allardyce and ticket price fury. What can the Reds,...
LIVERPOOL FC in 2016: 10 games, three wins — not including the penalty shoot-out victory over Stoke in the second leg of the League Cup semi-final — 14 goals scored, 15 conceded, a final secured, spectacles broken, only one top-flight game where the...
“I WERE looking at him all game and he were quite far off his line so as soon as Riyad’s played it through and it’s bounced quite high and I’ve got no support, I’ve just took me chance and luckily it’s gone over the top of...
IN among the bluster of the story, perhaps the defining moment of an entire era was buried last week when Alex Teixeira gave an exclusive interview, detailing precisely why he wanted to leave Shakhtar Donetsk while wearing a polo shirt issued by the club that pays his...
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.
