What a victory for Liverpool against Leicester - a game which had a bit of everything. A brace, a ton of needle and Harry Maguire's big head. Liverpool did the business when the pressure was on and the crowd responded. Joining Neil Atkinson to work through it all are John Gibbons, Gareth Roberts, Mike Nevin, Philippa Smallwood and Ian Salmon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
John Gibbons hosts the latest edition of The Team Talk to talk Leicester at Anfield and Burnley away. Ian Ryan, Gareth Roberts and Mo Stewart are in the studio and are joined on the phone by Pete Selby and Tyrone Marshall to talk Leicester and Burnley respectively. John is then chats to Aizaz Sheikh for this week's travelling Cop and then Kev Sampson and John Mackin to talk Burnley away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
On today's Friday show we were joined on the phone we're joined by Guto Llewelyn of The Jackcast to talk about the new appointment of Carlos Carvalhal as Swansea manager and look to their season to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A TAW Player Christmas Freebie! A longer Review show as The Anfield Wrap takes the opportunity to relax into The |Reds after a 5-0 win at home to Swansea. We talk about their approach, what they could have done differently and about why this Liverpool side were so effective. Rob Gutmann hosts and is joined by Sean Rogers, Neil Atkinson and Karl Coppack for this look back to Swansea, look at the bigger picture and look ahead to Leicester and Burnley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcas...
Liverpool have yet again thrown points away from a winning position. What should Jurgen Klopp be doing about this? What could the consequences be? It was a frustrating game but one where Liverpool also played very well. The club though has some hard choices to face. And a game in two days. Swansea City are on the horizon for The Reds. Who should start in goal? Guto Llewelyn joins us on the phone; Steve Graves, Stu Wright and John Gibbons are all in the studio. It's The Anfield Wrap. Have a liste...
It's the Christmas edition of The Rider and as such there is lots of talk of little drinks, nights out and decorations. There are festive tunes. There is John's Spotify hacker. And there are songs of the year of sorts. Neil Atkinson hosts somewhat chaotically with John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia all cutting loose and feeling frisky. It's the perfect tonic to Christmas shopping and the stresses of the season. And the songs are good. Thanks for listening. Learn more about your ad c...
The Anfield Wrap this week takes a long look at Liverpool's fantastic 0-4 win at Bournemouth and dwell on the sheer quality of that front three. The intensity was there throughout from The Reds and their quality shone through. It's a chance to take a breath and assess the season as well and we have a little bit of Mancunian influence as Steve Armstrong joins to chat through the situation in the wider league picture. Mike Nevin is in too and he and Steve chat about their new project, working for ...
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Gareth Roberts and John Gibbons speak to Rob Sutherland, online editor of the "Five Year Plan" fanzine, about claims by Sussex Police that Crystal Palace fans were carrying knives and knuckle dusters at their game versus Brighton. Rob and the fanzine challenged the claims prompting a police u-turn and public statement. Gareth and John also speak to Amanda Jacks from the Football Supporters' Federation about the incident and how the media covered it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcas...
Post derby despair for the Reds off the back of a 1-1 defeat against an Everton side so negative it would make Moyes blush. Joining Neil Atkinson for this week’s big show to trawl through a frustrating evening under a snow lit Anfield are Andy Heaton, Gareth Roberts, Paul Senior and Rob Gutmann. Has the sucker punch penalty decision coloured a display that was broadly fine, or where Liverpool to blame for allowing the Blues to claim the most undeserved point. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...
Seven against Spartak. What about Everton? One of the things about a big win is that it concentrates the mind on the next game. You just want to see Liverpool play and win again. That goes double when the next game is the Derby. Talking about Everton we have Dave Downie from the Blue Room. Looking at the Liverpool week and the squad we have John Gibbons and Adam Smith. Holding it together in the middle is Neil Atkinson. It's The Anfield Wrap on Citytalk at its best. Learn more about your ad choi...
A cast of thousands as Stephanie Heneghan has been inviting whoever she likes to this week's Rider. Therefore the usual suspects are joined by Joe Connolly and Rob Gutmann. She's also playing newcomers Frankie Goes To Hollywood. This is very much The Rider with its hair down but reapplying its make up before the big Christmas push. Neil Atkinson hosts, John Gibbons and Adam Melia are also in attendance and it is a barrel of laughs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adcho...
While we completely understandably obsess over the top of the Premier League up and down the country football clubs are going through their own trials and tribulations. One was brought to The Anfield Wrap's attention on Monday night when the excellent Amber Nectar podcast beat TAW to the honour of winning the best club podcast award. In their acceptance speech they mentioned the ongoing issues with the Allam ownership. We wanted to discuss that and so on this Midnight Caller Neil Atkinson and Jo...
Neil Atkinson hosts another Rider where things find themselves collapsing into a ditch in glorious fashion. The more these podcasts come, the more they deconstruct themselves. Neil is joined by John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia and they are all having a ball. The songs are the business. Unexpected Holder Action. Everything you need. Sorry it is late... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Joining Gareth Roberts to discuss Liverpool’s five-star performance against Brighton are Melissa Reddy, Paul Senior and Dan Austin. Are we seeing a new version of Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool now? And why is the manager’s touchline behaviour coming in for such scrutiny? This and more on today’s free Anfield Wrap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Neil Atkinson is joined by John Gibbons, Adam Melia and Andy Heaton for the week's City Talk show to talk all things Brighton & Hove Albion and Liverpool's current form as well as the man of the moment in Mo Salah. Neil and Andy also talk to David Squires about his new book 'The Illustrated History of Football: Hall of Fame'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A rotated and frustrated evening at Anfield gets a long look from The Anfield Wrap. The selection and the substitutions get examined in depth and at length. It's as much a conversation about Sevilla and Stoke as it is about Chelsea, though everyone was very impressed with the display from the Champions. Neil Atkinson hosts Dan Austin, Melissa Reddy and Rob Gutmann as they pick the bones out of that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Here we go again as the Chelsea game has emerged into view this week on Citytalk. The focus has been Sevilla given the nature of Liverpool's collapse and yet this is an enormous game for Liverpool's season. Neil Atkinson is joined by Paul Senior, Phil Blundell and John Gibbons and there is a clip from Raphael Honigstein and Andy Heaton chatting about Rafa's Jurgen Klopp book. You can buy that here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Free Podcast: Stewarding And Policing In Sevilla - An Anfield Wrap Special On a show initially recorded for our weekly Anfield Wrap video, The Wrap Up, which is available on our YouTube channel, Gareth Roberts, Neil Atkinson and Craig Hannan discuss the experiences in and around the match at Sevilla. Why are football fans seemingly treated so differently? Why were Liverpool supporters seemingly managed on reputation? And how can football clubs, football fans and football authorities work togethe...
It's constant chaos on this week's Rider with big Thursdays to be worked through and Bangers sought. It's gone quiet for releases as the sages ready their end of year lists. We still have gigs and 10 great songs. Neil Atkinson hosts as John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia do the business for 80 minutes of your time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Liverpool are in Seville and therefore The Anfield Wrap is sunning itself. It has also bumped into the brilliant Brian Reade. Neil Atkinson, Gareth Roberts and Craig Hannan chat to Brian about Liverpool's history in Europe and look ahead to tonight's game and the rest of the season. The Anfield Wrap finds itself in Seville thanks to Blue Air and they are flying out of Liverpool to a variety of different places including Milan, Alicante and Rome. https://www.blueairweb.com/ Learn more about your ...
As part of this week's 'Coach Home' Neil Atkinson and John Gibbons spoke to ITV's Dan Hewitt about West Brom's decision to part company with manager Tony Pulis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Liverpool put their most controlled performance of the season in against Southampton. But they all had their best four attackers on the pitch. What difference did this make? Discussing Coutinho deeper and Salah's astonishing start to the season with Neil Atkinson are Rob Gutmann, David Segar and Stuart Wright. They also take a look ahead to Sevilla and how Jurgen Klopp may approach that game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
The Anfield Wrap on Radio Citytalk this week is all excited about Liverpool returning to action after the international break. What can we expect? What will we see? Has the shape changed more than just once? We wonder about that, speculate on the side and imagine the Liverpool we will get to see this weekend and beyond. We've Heather Carroll updating us on the Ladies's progress too and an appeal for donations for a campaign around Hillsborough Law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcast...
It's ridiculous they let us do this. The Rider this week is quorate. Stephanie Heneghan is back and she is no longer unwell. She is, in fact, well. Very well. More within. Neil Atkinson and John Gibbons have been to Berlin and are back to tell the tale. Has Adam climbed anything? I mean this all seems rather mundane but it's pretty much the most riotous 80 minutes of podcasting you can get. THRILL at John supporting Mary Beard. STAGGER at Steph's chest infection. BE INSPIRED by Sooty and Sweep. ...
As Premier League clubs spent a record-breaking £1.4billion in the summer transfer window, at the bottom of the football pyramid teams continue to struggle to make ends meet. With ever-rising fees and facilities becoming increasingly rundown, the Save Grassroots Football campaign has launched a fresh petition in an attempt to persuade the government to impose a five per cent levy on the Premier League's broadcasting rights, with the money being reinvested into the grassroots game. Joining Josh S...
JOINING Gareth Roberts for a post-international break assessment of Liverpool's season so far and the ambitions that remain are Andy Heaton, Paul Senior and Ben Johnson. Following qualification for the Champions League, hopes were high that The Reds would push on, improve the squad in the summer and aim high this season. But after the ups and downs of the campaign so far, have the sights shifted? What represents a good season for Liverpool now and how much can we trust this squad to deliver in t...
Gareth Roberts is joined by Amanda Jacks, a caseworker for The Football Supporters' Federation who helps fans with policing and stewarding issues. The standard of stewarding is discussed, alongside a recent documentary screened on Channel 4 which focused on fans and "trouble on the trains". It's the third in a series of podcasts focusing on perception of football fans, how they are policed and stewarded, and how they are portrayed by the media. We've previously spoken to Chief Superintendent Owe...
Neil Atkinson hosts a book heavy international break edition of our Radio City Talk show. Joining him is Simon Hughes to talk about his latest book 'On The Brink', Mark Platt to talk about 'The Red Journey: Liverpool An Oral History Of Liverpool Football Club and finally Duncan Alexander to chat about 'Outside the Box: A Statistical Journey Through the History of Football'. For the last part of the show Neil chats to John Milburn, Sean McGivern and Jon Murphy about Man v Fat football tournament....
