The Anfield Wrap

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 wit...

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 choice...

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 tha...

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...

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 ma...

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 dif...

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. Lear...

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 f...

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...

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 Le...

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?...

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 ste...

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 th...

No Stephanie! She has been laid low and signed off meaning that Neil Atkinson, John Gibbons and Adam Melia must soldier on, on an unlikely afternoon recording. What to expect? What has Adam walked up now? How did John find Belfast? What was the score? Where is the Gig Of The Week? The show has it all apart from Steph. Get well soon! Tracklisting: Stylo G - Yu Zimme (All Star VIP remix) Prides - Le...

After a fantastic win against West Hame United, The Anfield Wrap has stock on where the season and Liverpool's squad is. Liverpool's pace was clear against West Ham but there was also solidity from The Reds. Is this the new shape of things to come from Jurgen Klopp? The room is Andy Heaton, James McKenna, Ben Johnson and Rob Gutmann. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adcho...

Stephanie Heneghan puts her medals on the table in this week's belated edition of The Rider. She went to Dublin, loved the people, did the business and returns a hero. On this show she is joined by John Gibbons, Adam Melia and Neil Atkinson. Adam's climbed a hill as well. Neil interviewed the artist and DJ Jeffrey Hinton at the fantastic exhibition Creative Rage and he talks to us about his filmma...

The Anfield Wrap this week covers a lot of ground. We start talking about Maribor at home. Liverpool showed a load of patience. Was this planned or was it the circumstance? Is this team growing? We then talk to Steve Kelly, Sarah Nolan, Pete Weatherby and Elkan Abrahamson about the proposed Hillsborough Law. To find out more go to www.hillsboroughlaw.com. Emre Can has found himself unlikely to sig...

The Anfield Wrap this week covers a lot of ground. We start talking about Maribor at home. Liverpool showed a load of patience. Was this planned or was it the circumstance? Is this team growing? We then talk to Steve Kelly, Sarah Nolan, Pete Weatherby and Elkan Abrahamson about the proposed Hillsborough Law. To find out more go to www.hillsboroughlaw.com. Emre Can has found himself unlikely to sig...

A victory for Liverpool against Huddersfield Town that feels mundane and strange in equal measure. We haven't had many wins or even performances like this in the last eight years so how did everyone feel about it? The club has had a difficult week and come out the other side with a victory. Neil Atkinson hosts and is joined by Philippa Smallwood, Rob Gutmann and Adam Smith. Learn more about your a...

The Anfield Wrap on Radio Citytalk this week gets into what could well prove to be one of the most important week's of Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool reign - one where Liverpool didn't play any games. It will have been a week where the club could have a think about where they have found themselves and a chance for everyone to reflect and plan for what comes next. Pondering this is Neil Atkinson, Andy He...

Neil Atkinson hosts The Rider as John Gibbons and Adam Melia work through the new music week and look back to Adam climbing something as he loves to do. Tracklisting: Kailee Morgue - Medusa Strawberry Runners - Garden Hose Cults - I Took Your Picture Surf Rock is Dead - In Between Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals Pia Fraus - Never Again Land Mind Enterprises - Idol Rimbaudian - I Would Do Everythin...