I actually qualified for a ticket for the AFC Wimbledon game in the third round when just 825 of us got the chance to go. The only problem being I couldn’t go. Apparently my mate Sue had a fantastic time. I still have a picture of ‘my ticket’ somewhere on...
WE left for Wimbledon at 2pm on Monday. Which is a time most people are normally in work. Lots of Liverpool fans will have had to try to ask for time off, bully workmates into swapping shifts or talk their boss into letting them leave early on what is traditionally...
I KNOW that, technically, it’s a different club. I know that, technically, the Wimbledon of Fashanu and Jones, of prototype geezerdom and unbridled thuggery, came to a messy end in 2004 when it relocated to the exotic climes of Milton Keynes and became known as MK...
ERIC Cantona’s smug face. That’s the immediate image that flashes in my mind whenever the FA Cup is mentioned. Eric frigging Cantona. The build up seemingly started at about 3am. My mum was on snack duty, diligently replenishing my supplies throughout the day as I sat...
FIFTY-SIX years ago to this day – July 29, 1958 – a bonafide legend signed for Liverpool Football Club. “Sir” Roger Hunt was spotted playing for Stockton Heath in the Mid-Cheshire League by Bill Jones, himself a former Liverpool player, and the grandad of...
NOTHING said ‘cup final day’ more than a dog in full football kit. The FA Cup Final used to be the biggest day on the football calendar. It was absolutely massive and the country would grind to a halt to decorate front windows of houses, to hand over good money to buy...
by STEVEN SCRAGG A CUP TIE tie lost but momentum maintained and a readjustment of mindset. I’m trying to grasp the vibe I’m meant to be experiencing after we tumbled out of the FA Cup to Arsenal at the Emirates. On one hand, I will never do anything other than...
WOULD you swap a win here for three in the league? Would you rest Suarez and Sturridge? It’s only the FA Cup… I want Liverpool to win everything. Every game. Every cup; from The Liverpool Senior Cup to The Champions League. I want silverware tied up in red and white,...
WHEN Daniel Sturridge passed his debut Liverpool goal in to Mansfield’s net, he did his best to look nonchalant. Perhaps aware that putting one past a non-league side wasn’t the kind of thing Real Proper Strikers Who Play Through the Middle like what he is...
EVERY time I see that a magazine or newspaper has a feature on the (fantastic) sports photographer Stuart Roy Clarke, I smile. Because I usually know what’s coming. Stuart Clarke, for those who don’t know, concentrates mainly on taking pictures of football fans rather...
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….
