Liverpool confirmed that next season they will be playing Champions League football with an excellent victory against Brighton And Hove Albion.
On this show, we sum up what that means for the club, the scale and scope of the achievement and how it reflects on the campaign after a sunny day at Anfield in every single sense of the word.
Neil Atkinson hosts and with him today are John Gibbons, Lizzi Doyle, Dan Austin, Siy Mooney and Gareth Roberts.
Great show as always, gutted to not be able to make it tonight as Craig had sorted it out for me….it’s been some ride this season and having the podcasts and shows and written articles from yourselves always helps get any KOPITE through the week. Whatever the result, always here with unbiased educated Football and social talk.
THE ANFIELD WRAP. ……IT’S JUST BOSS. ….YOU SHOULD ALL BE VERY PROUD OF YOURSELVES ALWAYS BEEN THE BEST LFC SHOW BAR NONE…… KIEV HERE WE COME
Great send off before the Final. Hilarious rant on referee. Most Irish accent I’ve heard since The Troubles. Looking forward to build up content – favour can we have a Hendo special ? Let’s put this debate to bed. I love the guy.
Thanks for the comment on the accent Lee
Would swap it for a Scouse one anyday ….,
Commonly known as “broad Dub” accent lol.
Hi guys, great game today and a pretty amazing season so far. Have to say, I’m loving the bitterness of rival fans in attempting to devalue, or even more hilarious, just completely ignore our Champions League progress. It’s been too long since other clubs were worried about us.
Back to back top four finishes and (savour it) a Second European final in less than three seasons. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Two European finals in under three years, one a Champions League. That is astounding I think. If someone had told me that during the dreadful hangover, of the 2014/15 season……
Great times to be a Red.
I’m a little too young to remember Shanks, and his 2nd (third possibly) truly great side of the early 70’s, or the team that Bob began to take to a supreme European level around 1975/76 but I imagine it felt a little like this. Of course even then we were more used to recent success but something just feels right at the moment.
Thanks to all the WRAP contributors for adding so much to the season. Best Wishes to all the Reds around the world (“around the wurrld”). Cheers. :)
I have been meaning to comment on the “decisions not evening themselves out over the course of the season” narrative you guys have been running over the last month, and this seems as good a point as any. I have been racking my brain for any 50/50 decisions (even 25/75) decisions we have got in our favour this league campaign (i.e. not CL).
I can only think of the Mingolet handling outside of the box and perhaps a softish penalty on Lallana (the one that Klopp compared to the Calvert-Lewin one). That’s it. Can anyone think of anything else? Compare that with the host of contentious mostly game-changing decisions that have gone against us: 2 pens v Spurs, 2 missed pens v BHA, 1 missed pen v Stoke, 3-5 missed pens v United, pen v Everton, missed pen v Bournemouth (Mane), Mane send off v City, etc… and a whole host of ones I probably can’t remember as they didn’t effect the outcome.
By this very rough tally I have 2 out of 15 big decisions that went our way. Now I realise that this is relying on my poor, biased memory but my feeling is that if I actually went back and did a tally it would actually be less in our favour (if I didn’t have a job I would write a script to scrape the Guardian’s minute-by-minute descriptions to get a better sample).
Now assuming that they were all exactly 50/50 decisions, the probability of getting only 2 out of 15 decisions happening by chance is 1/300. If say, 6 out of those decisions were classified as 75/25 then the odds drop to 1/20000.
We have had bad decisions at Anfield, away from Anfield, against smaller teams and against our rivals, there isn’t a pattern you could put down to refereeing psychology as far as I can see…
That pass ? it made me stand up as Trent wasn’t yet in the field of view… for me a wicked pass that smokes the defence is as good ‘nearly’ as a goal…. great stuff and a lovely listen A