The Anfield Wrap

It's a Rider tour de force this week as the Wham keeps coming but the songs are really rather overwhelming.  Adam Melia and John Gibbons have a wedding to discuss. A wedding which was drink. John went to Parklife and saw Stephanie Heneghan's brother. You can't write this stuff. Except, of course, we do.  Neil Atkinson hosts and here is the tracklisting:  MARIBOU STATE – “FEEL GOOD” (FEAT. KHRUANGB...

It's the second of two free free Anfield Wrap Special shows for the World Cup looking at the group stage in association with Redsbet. We shift towards the perennial favourites of Brasil and Germany while pondering the impact of their semi final last time out. There is a major defence of Bobby Martinez, a lot of Serbian chat and a good look at the group without a clear favourite - Group H. John Gib...

Gareth Roberts speaks to author and journalist Simon Hart about his newly-released book World In Motion: The Inside Story Of Italia 90. Simon talks about the tournament and the many stories that emerged from it ­ – from the shock performances of Costa Rica and Cameroon to the progress of Ireland and England to Toto Schillaci and Roger Milla. He also gets into some of the lesser-known stories in th...

It's a free two part Anfield Wrap Special for the World Cup looking at the group stage in association with Redsbet. We do the business in alphabetical order - starting with the group where Salah meets Suarez and moving through looking at all the runners and riders. There is discussion of Deschamps's fixation with Olivier Giroud, the oddness of Argentina being dark horses and a passionate argument...

In a show of three parts, Neil Atkinson is joined by Gareth Roberts, Glenn Price from ESPN and Dr Rosena Allin-Khan, the Shadow Minister For Sport, to talk the collapse of the Nabil Fekir transfer, the latest on the standing debate and what Jürgen Klopp might do next to improve the Liverpool defence. Monday's Anfield Wrap show is brought to you in association with Redsbet. Learn more about your ad...

Neil Atkinson was joined for tonight's Radio City Talk Show by Dan Austin and Andy Heaton for a look back at 2017/18 and a look forward to Liverpool's returning swagger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Rider is continuing to break podcasts into smaller and smaller pieces. But doing so while playing absolute bangers. It's that sort of week. The tunes are spectacular. 8 crackers for it to go right off wherever you are. Neil Atkinson hosts. Adam Melia, Stephanie Heneghan and John Gibbons provide the real and fake laughs. What more could you ask for? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podca...

All this week we'll be asking as many of our contributors as possible to review the 17/18 season as a whole. On this occasion we have Rob Gutmann, Adam Smith, Fuad Hasan, Craig Hannan and John Gibbons giving their thoughts on what went right for Liverpool and what the team and manager could have done better. Hosting and probing comes from Neil Atkinson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podc...

Neil Atkinson was joined for our latest free Radio City Talk podcast by Andy Heaton, Alison McGovern, Gareth Roberts and Rob Gutmann. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week The Rider have added Dan Morgan to sit in for the absent John Gibbons. There is a lot of talk of weekend journeys and subsequent hangovers as Dan, Adam Melia and Neil Atkinson have all been doing some travelling across the continent of Europe, one way or another. Stephanie Heneghan is almost patient about this. How marvellous.  What else? Rap beef getting out of hand is discussed as is K...

Neil Atkinson hosts an Anfield Wrap in transit across Germany as TAW return from the Ukrainian adventure. Gareth Roberts, Josh Sexton, Ian Ryan and Jon Jones join Neil to talk about the final, the fury and the trip across Europe before focus turns to the summer and what’s next for Liverpool under Jürgen Klopp Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a special Radio City Talk show recorded somewhere in the middle of Europe Neil Atkinson and his merry crew look back of what has been an enthralling European campaign for Liverpool Football Club. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gareth Roberts is back over the water again to speak to Tranmere Rovers owner and chairman Mark Palios about their return to the football league after a dramatic playoff victory over Boreham Wood at Wembley, a game in which they had to play for 89 minutes with 10 men. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is a taster of our Champions League preview show in the build up to Wednesday's game against Real Madrid. If you'd like to listen in full, you can enjoy all our build up and reaction show to Liverpool's Champions League Semi Final for just £5 a month.  To subscribe go to www.theanfieldwrap.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Adam Melia has climbed Snowden. I mean, it was always on the cards, wasn't it? Up Snowden and down dale. It's the culmination of all the walking. And perhaps a new beginning.  You want more? We have so much more. Steph Heneghan didn't like a tea out. That wasn't on the cards. But we are where we are. You have to make the best of these things.  They've measured another run incorrectly. What are the...

Every week The Anfield Wrap takes a long look at Liverpool's weekend game and wonders about the approach from The Reds and their opponents. This week though we are looking ahead, imagining we are in the shoes of Jurgen Klopp and Zinedine Zidane and wondering what the pair will be contemplating before this Champions League Final. Klopp has fewer choices; his side plays in his image and he has been...

The Anfield Wrap starts to look ahead to the week of Liverpool's eighth European Cup Final filled with excitement, trepidation, joy. All the obvious stuff. We work through all the feelings and get into the facts - how good our opponents are, what this means to Liverpool, what can be expected from the game and how it will be approached. We also speak to the producer of the Mo Salah documentary scre...

A wide ranging Citytalk this week starts off with Ian Salmon and James Sutton talking about the play they are collaborating on called Venus Rising. Then we talk to Samantha Johnson about her experiences making her way through her career as a black woman in sports media. Grant Wahl is on talking about his marvellous book Football 2.0 which asks about what we expect of the modern footballer.  Then w...

All back up high, all back in one place. The Rider works through a wide variety of topics including:  Coping alcohol  Wirral English  Childish Gambino  It does all the things it tends to do - go off on tangents and play eight great songs. Neil Atkinson does an approximate impression of a host with John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia sit in the wrong place and mess about telling jokes. ...

In a Free TAW Special, Andy Heaton and Neil Docking sat down with WWE Superstar Sheamus, who is in town tonight for SmackDown LIVE at the Liverpool arena tonight. Andy and Neil talk to Sheamus about his career and his path towards becoming a WWE Superstar before verging on to following the Reds from afar, the lengths it goes to watch the Reds on the road and how he think’s they’ll do in Kiev. Lear...

Neil Atkinson hosts the last big show of the regular season to reflect on an utterly dominant display against Brighton & Hove Albion and he is joined by Andy Heaton, Rick McEvoy and Rob Gutmann. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Citytalk this week presents Liverpool's season which is on the brink of greatness but can still fall apart into disappointment. We have a chat about the allocation from UEFA and what can be done about that before looking ahead to Brighton. Neil Atkinson hosts with John Gibbons, Fuad Hasan and Karl Coppack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A full show but a broken one. We have Friday Night Stephanie Heneghan joining Thursday night John Gibbons and Adam Melia. A bit of everything, a bit of everything you could ask for.  The songs are splendid. The best in new music.  Neil Atkinson hosts.  It's all your favourites.  Kluster - In Your Hometown  Big Freedia - Rent  Park Hotel - Good People Bad Dreams  6 Dogs - Off The Gas (feat. Little...

Liverpool crashed to defeat against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge and The Anfield Wrap in association with Redsbet are picking the bones out of that result and the wider knock on effects for Champions League qualification this season and beyond. In the end the game was decided by the only goal but Chelsea were able to keep Liverpool at bay. The Reds couldn't make their midfield break the lines and fo...

Liverpool beat Roma in the first leg, but they finished the job on Wednesday. Daniel Austin and Fuad Hasan were both there and they describe what it was like to see Liverpool win in the Eternal City. Now we find ourselves off to Kiev with a small allocation and with a date against Real Madrid for the biggest prize in club football. What can be said about this Liverpool side which hasn't been alrea...