MONDAY, March 17, 1986, Watford v Liverpool – FA Cup 6th Round Replay. “My son Mike and his mate Macca badgered me all weekend about the driving to the replay. The fact that they would have to bunk off school hadn’t even entered their heads! Before I knew...
I PRESSED the tab button. That’s all I did. Then the field exit button. And everything disappeared. All of it. The whole sodding thing. And I hadn’t saved anything. Hour-and-a-half’s work. And it was great. You’re obviously going to have to...
THERE are moments when we doubt Wembley. Like when they needlessly play semi-finals there. Like when we sense the smugness in its association with a national side we feel little affinity with. In these moments, Wembley, you seem so very far away. Then there’s the...
SO here we are again. Stuffy faceless blokes in suits wanting to rewrite the game we love with moves that seem to benefit the few and ignore the many. This talk of scrapping FA Cup replays, consigning cup weekends to the bin with rounds played midweek instead and...
ROB GUTMANN is joined by John Gibbons and Gareth Roberts to pick the bones out of Liverpool’s FA Cup 4th round exit at West Ham, and to consider where the club’s season goes from here. From being in four competitions just a fortnight ago, Liverpool FC’s campaign now...
HEARTBREAKING. And I didn’t expect to be writing that tonight. Absolutely heartbreaking to see that happen to these lads after the performance they put in. Liverpool deserved the lot insofar as either side did. Liverpool deserved to go to Blackburn; deserved to...
AHHHH, what a heartbreaker. We have deserved to lose many games this season, but that wasn’t one of them. After a slow start, Liverpool took over the game and I could only see one winner. West Ham looked done in and we looked destined to score, or at least win...
IN a VERY NSFW post match show, a broken Neil Atkinson was joined by Ben Johnson and Craig Hannan as Liverpool suffered defeat in the FA Cup thanks to an Angelo Ogbonna winner in the last minute of Extra Time. It hurts. Perhaps far more than it should. In a free clip...
CAN’T wait for tonight. Train leaves at four. Cans are in the fridge. Just need to write this nonsense, and we’re all set. In the current climate, it is probably worth pointing out that adult tickets for tonight’s game are £20. With a cheap advance...
ROBBO’s article for Mirror Football caused quite the stir yesterday. Apparently suggesting that a football team should sacrifice the battle for sixth place in a bid to win a cup is quite controversial. Someone even tweeted him telling him to hang himself. Have a...
Changing Expectations As Reds Fly: The Anfield Wrap
Neil Atkinson hosts John Gibbons, Sean Rogers and Ian Salmon. We discuss what constitutes a good season from this point, what Liverpool need to go right on and off the pitch to achieve this success and the ever looming contract situation.
Also in the show Neil chats to Dave Lynch about his substack….
