THIS week on The Anfield Wrap, we’ve been recording the summer transfer game. Neil presents us with a list of names and prices for ins and outs, and we get to pretend to be Jürgen Klopp for a fleeting hour. They’re good fun and always give an insight into where people...
MY city, my people, my heart. I was OK, I’d held it together last night until a certain point. It wasn’t the lift, Kenny or seeing them on The Kop. It was when Jamie Webster’s latest single, This Place, played out in a special video from Sky. It made me stop, it made...
IT’S only a few days away now. On Wednesday evening Jordan Henderson will get his hands on the Premier League trophy, all wrapped in red, and lift it high above his head to mark the end of an agonising wait. The title will once again reside at Anfield. It will be...
THE guard of honour, the smiles of relaxation before any game and the golden C on top spot regardless of what happens over the 90 minutes. It should feel joyous – a gloat fest to make even the most unbearable of unbearables, well, unbearable. And yet here we...
LIVERPOOL Football Club. The Premier League Champions. European Cup holders and Club World Champions. It’s a story that’s not going to get old anytime soon, is it? Whatever happens from here on in, what was for so long 18 and four, then 18 and five, is now 19 and six....
EIGHT key passes from two substitutes, eight from the rest on the pitch over 90 minutes. Brighton versus Liverpool came alive in the first and last 20 minutes of the encounter in a Liverpool sense. While Graeme Souness sat barking in the television studio making...
TWO games in the space of four days told two completely different stories. If you missed it, if you yearned for that feeling of watching this team in all its magnificence, then you may have felt slightly discombobulated seeing re-emerging shouts of “bottle” and...
I’VE spent most of the week redecorating. To the point where the Premier League return crept up on me inexplicably, despite the fact I’ve remained working within the confines of football’s dystopian world throughout and had three months to prepare...
JÜRGEN Klopp has changed tact. The language, oral and body, has strategically shifted. He is grateful, buoyant and optimistic to camera and microphone. Like an acclaimed star of the big screen he’s constantly aware, dissecting through the subconscious of the watching...
REMEMBER days of planning trips abroad? Of gambling £90 on flights the day after Liverpool beat Bayern Munich in the Allianz Arena last year because you just never know? Good times, weren’t they? When things such as mere travel abroad now seem difficult to the...
To take stock of the week just gone and look ahead to Liverpool v Southampton, John Gibbons hosts Andy Heaton, Sian Bennett and Craig Hannan.
Also on the show, we go back to what was a busy weekend for the city with three pilot events taking place in the form of ‘The First Dance’ presented by Circus at Bramley Moore Dock on the Friday and Saturday, as well as a concert in Sefton Park on the Sunday, as Liverpool gears up for life after lockdown.
To reflect on all of that and discuss what is next for the city as COVID restrictions continue to ease, John speaks to Claire McColgan, the Director of Culture Liverpool; Matt Ashton, the Director of Public Health; and DJ Lauren Lo Sung who was the first performer at the event on the Friday.
