I STARTED writing this when I got back from the pub on Sunday night. I was drunk. I greeted my wife and went straight in with an “I’m bevvied” admission. It’s a tactic I’ll often use in those situations, when I’ve arrived home...
IT’S the day after Liverpool drew 1-1 with Manchester United and the fallout continues — particularly where referees and Joel Matip are concerned, but more on that later… The Matip Saga Rumbles On FAST becoming a shambles this. As you’ll...
Travelling to Old Trafford and missing half their first choice back four to face a Manchester United enjoying a run of NINE consecutive wins and in the best form since the Champagne Socialist shuffled upstairs…..and yet, and yet, a draw still felt like a defeat....
AT what point will I calm down? It is 9pm as I write this, the game finished over three hours ago and I still feel like I want to walk to Manchester with a ‘The Stone Roses are shit’ banner in one hand and a taser in the other. That might be a bit of an exaggeration...
CAN I tell your congregation how a resurrection almost feels? There was something about that little cup run combined with Sunderland combined with everyone else winning football matches for what felt like forever which hurt. Which dented. Which made you wake nights...
THE match ratings from Liverpool’s 1-1 draw with Manchester United at Old Trafford. Simon Mignolet: 10 What a performance, three moments when you think ‘goal’ and he gets something in the way. The stop from Henrikh Mkhitaryan was especially good....
AHEAD of Liverpool’s trip to Old Trafford TAW contributors look back on seven times The Reds conquered Manchester United away from home soil. Liverpool 2 Manchester United 1 – March 26, 1983 (Wembley) THE eighties wasn’t all MTV and blokes with hair like...
AT Old Trafford they’re talking about this being the day they re-join the title race. It’s a bigger game for them than it is for us. If we win in Manchester our chests are puffed, but the league will be far from won. A defeat would see heads go, but it is a far from...
AHEAD of Liverpool’s crucial clash with Manchester United at Old Trafford, we spoke to our mate Ste Armstrong from United We Stand to get an opposing view on the game. Firstly, what are your personal best and worst moments of Liverpool visiting Old Trafford? You’ve...
BY God, we needed that on Wednesday. Up the Spurs. When I got in from work shortly before 8pm, my missus — who for different reasons to me carries the same detailed Liverpool FC fixture list around in her head – expected some tea together, a chat about our...
Liverpool’s Famous Kop & Man City | The Anfield Wrap
Liverpool face a Manchester City side this weekend, a game which would grab the attention of the nation regardless, with City having been found guilty of cheating by the Premier League facing a side that ran them so close on various occasions, the eyes of the nation will be glued to a fixture that promises a powder keg of an atmosphere – but with so many questions hanging over Manchester City, should this fixture even be played at all and what can we expect when the side found guilty of 114 of the 115 charges levelled at them roll in to Anfield?
To discuss all the above, Neil Atkinson is joined by John Gibbons and also Brian Reade to talk not just about the weekend’s clash, but also his new book ‘The Kop’ which explores how and why the Kop became the globally-renowned stand it is today.
Also on the show, Neil chats to Charles and Andrew Hendy of ‘The Mary Wallopers’ to talk about their James Skelly produced new album ‘Paddywhackery’.
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