NEIL ATKINSON was joined by Rob Gutmann, Gareth Roberts and Mike Nevin as they look towards Manchester City away on Monday and the imminent arrival of a certain Italian international. Music this week from Paddy Clegg and Dane Pollard Paddy Clegg Paddy is a 17...
MARIO Balotelli then. Bit out of left field, wasn’t it? What with the categorical denial of interest 18 days ago and all that. And it appears, to say the least, to have divided opinion among Reds. After missing out on Alexis Sanchez, the collapse of the Loic...
ACCENTUATE the positives, eliminate the negatives. That’s exactly what Liverpool did during the second half of last season. Brendan Rodgers’ team was far from perfect during 2013-14 but – crucially – as the season went on he got them focused on what they could do...
WHAT an annoying buzz phrase it is. Having been a civil servant for a large part of my recent history, it has been haunting me, following me everywhere. Constantly being told what we are doing ‘going forward’. In the last year or so, I have noticed it...
AUGUST 19th, 1981. The day we sold Jimmy Case to Brighton & Hove Albion. Thirty three years ago today. Which means that one or two of you may not have seen him play on anything other than YouTube. The joys of being old, the joys of living through the glory years –...
DOO is a bit angry. Anger doesn’t suit Doo. Doo is a really nice fella. Doo is a Southampton fan. *This isn’t going to go all ‘I want to introduce you to someone’. Doo works at Southampton University, is a born-again fitness enthusiast and has been nowhere near Iran....
NEIL ATKINSON is joined by Rob Gutmann, John Gibbons and Paul Cope after Liverpool’s season opening 2-1 win over Southampton. Download Issue 11 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at app.theanfieldwrap.com for other devices. Like what we do? Buy us a pint! Don’t...
It’s 26 years to the day since Ian Rush returned to Liverpool after his short spell at Juventus. NEIL SCOTT remembers it well. AS anyone with a cursory knowledge of the football landscape will tell you, the transfer window has its own unique lexicon. “Sources...
WITH money and cynicism reaching all-time highs within the game, it’s rare that football fans can almost unanimously celebrate a feel-good transfer story where the fee doesn’t make you spit out your cuppa and proclaim that the ‘game’s gone to the dogs’, writes MATT...
ANOTHER season awaits for Liverpool, just weeks after the highs and the final low of last season. Now Brendan’s tricky Reds need to start all over again, with loads of new bodies to help push them that little bit further. In the CityTalk 105.9 studio this week...
Liverpool kick off their 26/27 Champions League stage campaign at Anfield to face Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid, a team who head into the in a period of on and off the pitch turbulence, can the Reds take advantage and make a positive start on Wednesday night.
Ian Ryan is joined by Kieran Molyneux, Keifer MacDonald and Phil Blundell
Also in the show, Neil Atkinson chats to Miguel Periera about Atletico Madrid.
