‘Bedding In’ is a no-agenda chat based in the Liverpool Gin Distillery with this edition’s focus being the recent history of fan activism at Liverpool FC. Neil Atkinson, John Milburn, Steve Graves, Paul Cope, Gareth Roberts and Jay McKenna get stuck...
THE arrival of the winter break in the calendar this year has coincided with my own getaway, and I’m remaining as true to it as Jürgen Klopp and his players. I’m currently in Costa Rica, staying with family in a lovely town called Atenas. We’re seven hours behind GMT...
THERE’S something about winning that really gets under people’s skin. It probably doesn’t help when the team you support does it so routinely that they make breaking records an almost weekly occurrence. And of course it’s not just breaking records, there’s proving...
SOME people really don’t like us, do they? I don’t mean just fans, but media outlets, pundits, the rent-a-quote Mersons and phone ins. You expect the odd bit of abuse to head our way – it comes with the territory – but it’s more marked and darker since we...
As we head towards the third decade of the new millennium football is evolving at an unheralded rate with both the sport itself and the coverage over becoming more and more reliant of statistical analysis, but just how useful and how much influence do advanced...
IS there a danger, however small, that we may be becoming spoiled watching this incessant winning machine week in, week out? It was a question some dared to air over a post-match pint on Saturday afternoon. In Sheffield, the travelling support from Liverpool wasn’t at...
WITH Newcastle United due at Anfield tomorrow – and the name Gillett linked to the ownership of an English football club once more – memories of the all-too-recent darker ownership days at Liverpool came flooding back this week. Take your pick from the lowlights, from...
Weighing up the strengths weakness and differences of watching football in the ground vs on the telly. Neil Atkinson is joined by Dan Morgan and Paul Cope to discuss and ask what it is we want from our football-watching experience. If you're already subscribed, click...
The Anfield Wrap spoke to Rachel Ramsay, producer of the Amazon Prime series This Is Football, to hear about the process behind the show and specifically the remarkable Rwandan Reds who one of the episodes is centred around. If you're already subscribed, click here to...
IT’S good to have it all back. Good to be in the midst of it all once again. After the ever-shorter post-season breather, last Friday, a familiar pilgrimage was made. To Anfield. To Liverpool FC. The pub was full of smiles. The Kop was full of flags. And just before...
