NEIL ATKINSON was joined by Gareth Roberts, Andy Heaton and football agent Stephen Morris for this week’s Anfield Wrap on CityTalk 105.9. Download Issue 10 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at app.theanfieldwrap.com for other devices. DIRECT LINK TO CITYTALK –...
REY MASHAYEKHI was at the Yankee Stadium for Liverpool’s penalty shoot-out win over Manchester City. “Hey Xabi, you know which train we gotta take?” The man on the platform, identifying me by the “Alonso 14” on my back, was draped in red from head to toe. With...
ON this day in 1996, Liverpool Football Club unveiled the signing of Patrik Berger from Borussia Dortmund. I was very excited. It was a time when Liverpool didn’t have many overseas players, and long before it was cool to sign people from Dortmund. When Berger...
EVERY year, sometime around mid-July, it’s the same script, writes CRAIG RIMMER. The withdrawal symptoms induced by having not watched the Red men do their thing for two full months reach the point where a pre-season kick about with Preston North End is greeted...
WITH Rickie Lambert, Adam Lallana and Dejan Lovren joining the Reds this summer – and Southampton trousering £49m from the transfers in the last three months – I spoke to BEN STANFIELD, a born-and-bred Southampton lad, a Saints fan for over 25 years and a...
FIFTY-SIX years ago to this day – July 29, 1958 – a bonafide legend signed for Liverpool Football Club. “Sir” Roger Hunt was spotted playing for Stockton Heath in the Mid-Cheshire League by Bill Jones, himself a former Liverpool player, and the grandad of...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined by Rob Gutmann, John Gibbons and special guest Jamie Carragher, as they chat about Jamie’s career, the upcoming season and whether Liverpool can get to, or surpass, 84 points. Download Issue 10 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at...
I MIGHT be guilty of over-doing the Ray Kennedy stuff. There will be mates of mine who are cackling at that sentence. Might be? I’ll come clean. I’m more than guilty. I never shut up about him. Growing up, Ray was my favourite player. Kenny came close and...
By Joe Simpson “Put aside the Ranger. Become who you were born to be.” Lord Elrond, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King WHEN people ask me what I am most looking forward to this season, it isn’t the new signings, it isn’t the continued development of the...
I’M channelling Wyclef Jean’s Gone Till November. More precisely, Wyclef Jean’s Gone Till November as performed in a karaoke bar somewhere on the Greek island of Kos – a good decade and a half or so ago – by a monotone/tone deaf Scandinavian surfer dude. It was...
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.