The Weekender talks through the Champions League draw, the nature of Mo Salah's issues with the Egyptian FA, a Match For Cancer with Stiliyan Petrov and looks ahead to Leicester away. Hosted by Neil Atkinson with Simon Hughes, Adam Melia and Craig Hannan, it is the boost your Friday needs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A game defined by moments, by three points and by Liverpool having more to work on is discussed on The Anfield Wrap. There was first half assurance from Liverpool but Brighton came into the game in the second half, leading Jürgen Klopp to be slightly critical of his side and their performance after the game. The front three again never quite fired but the centre back partnership of Joe Gomez and Virgil van Dijk continues to impress Dissecting those moments and those performances are Steve Graves...
Our Weekender gets stuck into: Transfer Structure Marko Grujic Amortization Manchester City Football Documentaries The Liverpool Bank Holiday Weekend Kick Off Times Naby Keita Brighton And Hove Albion It's absolutely everything you need for a weekend's excitement. Bank Holiday approaching. Sit back and get excited with us. We have Ken Early having a big chat about All Or Nothing, Jack Pitt-Brooke on Liverpool's number 8 and Rob Gutmann, Paul Cope and Dan Austin in the studio. It's star quality a...
Liverpool return from Crystal Palace with another three points, grinding out a victory against the most Hodgson of Crystal Palace sides. The Reds didn't sparkle but managed to do enough to keep Palace at bay in a mature, disciplined display to secure a tricky away day victory. Neil Atkinson is joined by Melissa Reddy and Adam Melia for this week's show. Today’s free Anfield Wrap show was supported by RedsBet. Tailor-made for Liverpool fans, RedsBet are an online gaming platform which seeks to bu...
The Weekender looks back on a quiet Liverpool week and ahead to Crystal Palace. What should The Reds do against Wilfried Zaha? Just play their natural game or make a change? We also reflect on the summer the U23s had with Andy Kelly, look ahead to Liverpool Women's start to the season with manager Neil Redfearn, central defender Niamh Fahey and Heather Carroll, and anticipate our weekends. It is the first step of your weekend with Caoimhe O'Neill, Josh Sexton and John Gibbons. Neil Atkinson host...
Normal service resumed at Anfield as Liverpool swotted aside West Ham in the 18/19 season opener, inflicting a four goal victory that did not flatter Jurgen Klopp's charges. And with promising debuts for Naby Keita and Alisson Becker the Reds recorded their biggest opening day victory since 1932 without really getting out of 3rd gear. Joining Neil Atkinson for this week's show is Rob Gutmann, Melissa Reddy and Paul Senior. Today’s free Anfield Wrap show was supported by RedsBet. Tailor-made for ...
Top of the tower, top of the hour, albeit a bit late, The Rider is back with tales of weekends long gone and lost, stories of kindness and a Man Called Steve. The full team are around and about and Neil Atkinson and John Gibbons have obviously been on their travels. Adam Melia and Stephanie Heneghan are the stars of the show as per. We have a long chat about Adam's social media explosion. Lukewarm, indeed. The tunes are anything but. Eight crackers. Tracklisting: French Horn Rebellion - Soy Boni...
Our new free show for every Friday - This is The Weekender. Expect something a bit more raucous than Citytalk but just as informative as The Anfield Wrap looks back on the Liverpool week, gets outside its bubble with Oli Kay, talks men's health with Manwell (thanks to Stuart Fitzgerald and Sean McGivern for coming in for that) and focusses on the weekend and the big start to the season against West Ham United. Hosted by Neil Atkinson with Dan Morgan, Kev Walsh and Adam Melia all kicking back and...
Fresh from another positive preseason performance having dispatched Napoli with aplomb by five goals to nil Neil Atkinson is joined for this weeks big show by Ian Salmon, Ian Ryan and John Gibbons for our first ever live streamed podcast. What would Jurgen Klopp have taken from the Dublin friendly apart from a clean sheet on his debut for Alisson Becker, have any of the squad asked questions of the manager or put in enough to potentially change the mind of the manager with West Ham on the horizo...
A summation of the summer and a look ahead to Napoli and a chat about the evolution of the LFC pre-season fanpark. Neil Atkinson is joined by John Gibbons, Ste Browne and Dan Morgan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
It's the full room, it's top of the tower. The Rider at its best. Looking back on the United States, looking back on Pride weekend, going through the business that needs to be got through. AND NEW ROBYN! That's right. We are backing Robyn without even having heard it. That's the faith The Rider has in the situation. Mamma Mia. Here we go again. Neil Atkinson hosts - John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia do the business. The tracklisting is here: Eliza and the Bear - First Aid The Inter...
This week's Anfield Wrap takes stock of where Liverpool are at this stage of the preseason. They have bounced through the American tour and enjoyed themselves as they go about their business. Both Sadio Mane and Mo Salah have returned from their summers looking sharp. Daniel Sturridge is still grabbing people's attention and Xherdan Shaqiri did very well on his first start. What should our expectations be for this campaign to come? Should there be a ceiling on those expectations? Are we setting ...
Liverpool's preseason continues apace and now the first game is very much on the horizon. Liverpool face West Ham in less than three weeks. The Anfield Wrap takes stock on Citytalk this week about where those preparations are up to. Both Mo Salah and Sadio Mane have returned to the fold and both looked very sharp against a young Manchester City. We have a clip from our interview with Jürgen Klopp. That talk was fascinating is available in full through our subscription service. We also have the s...
The Rider this week sees Neil Atkinson, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia joined by Joe Connolly to talk about his Port Sunlight life. This mostly consists of tutting at strangers who do not pass Port Sunlight muster and arguing the area is becoming gentrified. They have a Vietnamese don't you know. What else? Well Neil is about to go away (which is real time means he has gone away) to the United States so there is a chat about that. Gig of the week is back, the banger is in there. And there is ...
Liverpool fan and WWE superstar Zack Gibson joins Andy Heaton and Neil Docking to talk about his journey so far - including his recent WWE UK Championship Tour success - his first memories of being a Red, how he keeps up with Jürgen Klopp's side on the road and what he hopes the future holds for his career in professional wrestling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Liverpool are in America and so are The Anfield Wrap. Neil Atkinson is joined by Gareth Roberts, John Gibbons and Craig Hannan to discuss Liverpool's defeat to Borussia Dortmund in North Carolina . We also have exclusive audio with Jurgen Klopp and some of the squad after the game. The Anfield Wrap are covering all three Liverpool games from the USA as part of the International Champions Cup. Share the experience with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
On the eve of Liverpool's American tour there is the good news about Alisson joining the club for a World Record fee. What this means for the club is thoroughly dissected by John Gibbons and Paul Cope. John and Paul though also reflect on the news around Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and his injury woes. They look at what our rivals have been up to so far. Also on the show is Ian Salmon talking about the second run of his acclaimed play Those Two Weeks. Alex Baillee joins us to talk about about his ph...
There is some anger on The Rider about the general state of things, there is lots of news of lovely weekends filled with Stephanie Heneghan cameos, there is the eight great songs. There is also the fact that we are all together. These times seem rarer and rarer and so they must be enjoyed. Neil Atkinson hosting with John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia in the house. Tracklisting: Whipped Cream - Drag Me Jaden Smith - Breakfast Bellhouse (Mill's, lad) - Mess Mouse on Mars and Eric D Cl...
An unconventional Anfield Wrap this week sees Neil Atkinson host a long long at the aftermath of the World Cup along with the realities of squad management that now confront Jurgen Klopp. What does an ideal Jurgen Klopp squad look like? Indeed, can such a thing be possible? The manager himself has changed his approach during his time at the club and looks set to continue that this season. He does so with his long time assistant Zeliko Buvac who will not be returning to Liverpool. Does this compl...
This week on The Anfield Wrap's Radio Citytalk show we get stuck into: Liverpool's likely signing of Xherdan Shaqiri. How that could feed in tactically. What this means for the prospective Nabil Fekir deal. Who will be able to keep a squad place going into the season from Liverpool's back up forwards. The World Cup Final. Dejan Lovren. Danny Ward getting an opportunity for The Reds. It's a packed show. We have our Redsbet segment in there as well. Neil Atkinson hosts with Mike Nevin, Andy Heaton...
It is all going off in the animal kingdom. We think the heat is driving them wild, making them feral. We have news and developments. And those developments have led to us losing Adam Melia for the day. So the show is hosted by Neil Atkinson; John Gibbons and Stephanie Heneghan are on full Wham duties. Six great songs though. Always them to look forward to... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
It still feels like we've yet got to the end of 2017/18 yet and we're somehow already playing games of football in the 2018/19 season. Football can't half come at you fast and joining Neil Atkinson for this week's free podcast to talk about how Liverpool fared against Chester and how much is at stake for the future of more than a few Liverpool players this pre-season are Andy Heaton, Andy Kelly, Ian Salmon, Ian Ryan and Paul Senior Today’s free Anfield Wrap show was supported by RedsBet. Tailor-...
It only feels like yesterday that we were all heading back from Kiev, but Liverpool's pre-season starts tomorrow with a trip to Chester. Dan Austin is joined by Gareth Roberts, Mo Stewart and John Gibbons to look forward to watching Liverpool again, and discuss who might stake a claim in the early games. We also talk about Loris Karius as both Jurgen Klopp and Steven Gerrard come out in support of the German stopper. Although they might not have seen his instagram.... Sandwiched in the middle Ne...
We are Neil-less for the week so Adam Melia is in the hot seat, joined by Stephanie Heneghan and John Gibbons. An episode shorter on songs but heavy on fun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
As a brilliant "round of 16" comes to a close John Gibbons is joined by Ian Ryan, Mo Stewart and Dan Austin to analyse all of the games over the last few days, including England's penalty shoot-out victory against Colombia. The lads also pick their team of the tournament so far. Two countries have two players in our side. Can you guess who they are? This Free World Cup show is in association with Redsbet. For daily World Cup specials go to https://www.redsbet.com/en/betting Please gamble respons...
Neil Atkinson, back in the chair after being sacked only days earlier, is joined for a sun drenched Rider, joining him for your usual mix of tunes and sarcasm are Adam Melia, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
John Gibbons is joined on this week's big show to celebrate the news of Mo Salah's new contract by Melissa Reddy, Adam Smith, James McKenna and Paul Senior. Having joined Roberto Firmino in committing his long term future to the club, the Egyptian has shown his commitment and belief in Jurgen Klopp's project, and with a new deal for Rhian Brewster about to be signed Liverpool are getting their house in order the 2018/19. Also on the agenda is a chat about the Reds only being days away from their...
Neil Atkinson is joined for this weeks City Talk show for a chat about Liverpool's squad next season, or more specifically, those players who might find themselves on the edges of it. In an interview heavy show, Gareth Roberts also speaks to Ste Martin about this years Anne Williams Memorial Goal Day as well as Phil Reade and Andy Grant about Andy's book 'You'll Never Walk'. You can support the Anne Williams Golf Day here https://www.gofundme.com/l96x2o ? 'You'll Never Walk' can also be purchase...
Neil Atkinson joined by Rob Gutmann, Ian Salmon, Dan Austin and John Gibbons for the week's big show. On today's show, the panel discuss what Liverpool's options are should they not sign another goalkeeper over the course of the summer and whether any potential deal for Nabil Fekir can be reignited in light of comments from the players camp before having a discussion about Liverpool's wider recruitment strategy. The show is ended with a discussion about the sensitive subject of Liverpool's auto-...
Dan Austin, hosting this week's show, is joined Andy Heaton and Adam Smith as they look towards what Liverpool's forward line and midfield might look like next season and whether either area needs reinforcing. Also in the show John Gibbons talks to Neal Heard about 'The Art Of Football' his book and the exhibition of the same name whilst Neil Atkinson and Gareth Roberts talk to Emy Onuora about his book 'Pitch Black: The Story of Black British Footballers and the ongoing problems with racism in ...
