If Manchester City had never unfairly skewed the competition, would the beautiful journey of Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool ever have happened?… THE SCALE of Manchester City’s sham is now clear. For me, anyway, it is important to start here: I had a...
People are rightly reflecting on the 2013-14 title race after Manchester City’s charges came back, but are those memories now meaningless? I CAN’T stop thinking about the 2013-14 season. Certain campaigns live longer in the memories than most....
Andoni Iraola has had a fine start to his Liverpool career, but he may need a big moment to really spark this era into life… I’M PLEASED to announce that a new Anfield Wrap podcast will launch over the international break. The Origin takes a person, game,...
After struggling last season, Cody Gakpo looks to have worked through some of his weaknesses, something Florian Wirtz could learn from… SUNDAY was a huge win. Enormous. Mostly because the game was fairly awful, and those are the sort of affairs where...
Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Bournemouth 0 Liverpool 1 in the 2026-2027 Premier League at the Vitality Stadium… QUICK things: The only beautiful thing about the performance was the away kit. All 16 play their part. It looked like...
Dominik Szoboszlai is not the first Liverpool player to polarise supporters, and he certainly won’t be the last… ‘ARROGANT PRICK’. NOT MY words, but that of the 30-something-fella sat behind me last week in The Kop after Liverpool’s 0-0 draw against...
Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 3 Tottenham 1 in the 2026-2027 Carabao Cup at Anfield… THEY were likeable. Very likeable. It has been a little bit of a theme recently, a feeling, that Liverpool supporters do not...
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Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 0 Fulham 0 in the 2026-2027 Premier League at Anfield… The frustration of all that is only ameliorated slightly by those around us drawing too. It’s a day of 3pm-1-point annoyances....
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Liverpool’s Famous Kop & Man City | The Anfield Wrap
Liverpool face a Manchester City side this weekend, a game which would grab the attention of the nation regardless, with City having been found guilty of cheating by the Premier League facing a side that ran them so close on various occasions, the eyes of the nation will be glued to a fixture that promises a powder keg of an atmosphere – but with so many questions hanging over Manchester City, should this fixture even be played at all and what can we expect when the side found guilty of 114 of the 115 charges levelled at them roll in to Anfield?
To discuss all the above, Neil Atkinson is joined by John Gibbons and also Brian Reade to talk not just about the weekend’s clash, but also his new book ‘The Kop’ which explores how and why the Kop became the globally-renowned stand it is today.
Also on the show, Neil chats to Charles and Andrew Hendy of ‘The Mary Wallopers’ to talk about their James Skelly produced new album ‘Paddywhackery’.
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