Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 3 Manchester United 0 on the 2024-2025 pre-season tour of the USA… THE final of the three US games saw Liverpool outscore Manchester United by three goals to nil. I’m loath to...
How football and music become intertwined in our memories with past life events, and the power of nostalgia… MARTIN Phillips died this past weekend. If that name means nothing to you, he was the lead singer of the New Zealand band The Chills. If The...
Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 2 Arsenal 1 on the 2024-2025 pre-season tour of the USA… THEY got what they wanted. The trick of the mind is that Liverpool are in the US all the time. It’s actually the first...
Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 1 Real Betis 0 on the 2024-2025 pre-season tour of the USA… PITTSBURGH gets the first showing of Arne Slot’s Liverpool and Pittsburgh revels in it. We’ve had a fabulous...
What makes Jürgen Klopp perfect for the England manager job, as well as the antithesis to the identity that surrounds the position… JÜRGEN Klopp and the England job is fundamentally hard to argue against. His presence in any capacity is difficult to...
With the international tournaments now out of the way, Liverpool’s 2024-2025 pre-season begins now and the real stuff can finally resume… AND there goes the big summer tournament. Finished. Over the past month, people have been a bit upset when I’ve...
As Liverpool welcome a new manager to signal a new era for the club, Anfield is ready to embrace the future… IT felt like the longest interregnum you could imagine. Morning. We’re back, then. In all the ways. It occurred to me a few weeks back I had...
Fans of Liverpool and England would’ve been happy with Trent Alexander-Arnold’s big moment at EURO 2024, but how much will that feeling stick around? I’M made up for Trent Alexander-Arnold. Absolutely made up for him. To go through the nonsense he’s...
Liverpool Football Club continues to have problems allowing its members to get tickets during their sales, but what are they doing to fix it? LAST Wednesday, those with an LFC membership were allowed to register their interest for tickets to home games for the...
As Trent Alexander-Arnold became a national scapegoat, this week revealed that England has far bigger problems… IN this, the week of all things British culture, I’m patriotically filled with feelings only England in 2024 can bring. We are left perpetually...
The Anfield Wrap’s midweek podcast discussing Liverpool’s performance against PSV and looking ahead to their fixture at the weekend against Bournemouth.
John Gibbons hosts Mike Kearney, Abigail Rudkin and Ali Gunn…
Also in the show, John speaks to Sam Davis from ‘Back Of The Net’ podcast to get the Bournemouth view