Neil Atkinson gives his immediate post-match review after Liverpool’s draw with Manchester City in the Premier League… MANCHESTER City vs Liverpool. The game was brilliant and it was wild until it was very, very sane. Until it was very, very tired....
Over the international break, The Anfield Wrap team have had the chance to go out in to the community and see the great work that the LFC Foundation and Red Neighbours team are doing around Liverpool. John Gibbons went to find out where the money from the most recent...
HISTORY is littered with background people. For every moonwalking Neil Armstrong there’s a Michael Collins hidden away in the lunar module. For every John, Paul, George and Ringo there’s a George Martin staying behind to patch it altogether with just a mug of Horlicks...
FOUR years is a very long time in football. Four years ago, Jürgen Klopp was the manager of Borussia Dortmund. Four years ago, a 23-year-old Xherdan Shaqiri was on the fringes of the Bayern Munich squad. As Bayern visit Anfield for the first time since 1981, they will...
SOMETIMES one of the greatest motivations is being told no. You can’t do that. You won’t do that. You haven’t got the skills. You haven’t got the talent. It will never work. You won’t see it through. We’ve all had it in one way or another during our lives, and...
IT’S been an interesting start to Xherdan Shaqiri’s Liverpool career. In one way, low key. In another, full of incident. He missed half of pre season due to his World Cup exploits, and then scored an amazing acrobatic goal in a 4-1 win against Manchester...
IT was raised by many heading into the season as a reason to back Liverpool to do well. Thanks partly to the inspired movements in the transfer market and the careful management of the squad by Jürgen Klopp, all of a sudden The Reds have gone from having a starting 11...
SUM up Jürgen Klopp’s approach to football and the likelihood is you will quickly start to lean on the well-worn phrases that litter any attempt to characterise his work. Whether it’s “heavy metal football”, “Gegenpressing” or the idea that a team under this manager...
Liverpool have been linked heavily with Stoke City and Switzerland player Xherdan Shaqiri this summer. But is he the right fit for The Reds? John Gibbons speaks to three people who know Shaqiri better than most. Firstly Oliver Zesiger, football scout and Head...
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Weekender: Manchester, Meet The Champions
Gareth Roberts hosts Lizzi Doyle, Paul Cope and Ste Evans to look ahead to Liverpool’s top of the table clash with Manchester United at Anfield.
Also on the show, John Gibbons speaks to Alison McGovern, Philippa Smallwood and Leanne Prescott about Vicky Jepson leaving, and The Athletic’s Carl Anka looks ahead to Liverpool v Man United with Neil Atkinson.
