THE transfer window’s closed then, a crazy period of time when Premier League clubs buying a dozen players and selling a dozen more to try to magically improve results becomes an accepted norm. What has also seemingly become accepted, by the league at least, is...
THE breath drawn to blow the final whistle had barely been exhaled when it began: a cyberspace rubbing of hands. A virtual crack of the fingers. The post-match interview was awaited by some with the glee reserved for Christmas Day unwrapping. Time to dig at the...
PROMISING enough stuff from the Reds, albeit it in a type of game that is hard to take too much from. Plenty of lads showed they belonged at that level. A few didn’t. But we knew that already. Anyway. Numbers and words. Simon Mignolet 7 Has the mad punch,...
TERRY’S header hits the net and Steve Graves turns to me and says: “What next?” What next indeed. What the hell next? What could be next? A wrecking ball sweeping through the boozer. A personalised rainstorm like in The Truman Show following you...
NEIL ATKINSON has John Gibbons and Steve Graves in the studio to discuss Liverpool’s 1-1 draw with Chelsea in ‘The Pink’. All the obvious get a mention. Along with lamination.
THIS Sunday the players of Liverpool Football Club will form a guard of honour to herald the arrival of the new English Champions. Whether we like it or not Chelsea are the victors and should be lauded as such. Not by us, you understand, but by the club. In the true...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined by Sean Rogers, Rob Gutmann and Kevin Sampson to discuss the Reds’ narrow defeat at Stamford Bridge in the League Cup and chat with West Ham fan Andy Middleton about the visit of the Hammers to Anfield tomorrow. Like what we do? Buy us a...
WITH February looming, Liverpool sit in eighth place in the Premier League table. They are out of the Champions League, face a tricky fourth round replay at Bolton in the FA Cup next week and were eliminated by Jose Mourinho’s latest band of not so merry men in the...
EPIC. Epic because it was three and half hours long. Epic because it was a grand, gripping spectacle; a sporting battle of the highest order. Epic because every ounce of effort from every character involved was expended into emerging from the piece victorious; as the...
I CAN’T do anything. There are things that I could be doing, should be doing. I’m a writer; I should be writing. There are actors who will want words putting into their mouths at some point and this novel resolutely refuses to finish itself. It’s...
Manchester City And The Valois Dukes of Burgundy: Neil & Jonathan Liew
Neil Atkinson is joined by a special guest to discuss a big football talking point, in the latest episode is a discussion about defining legacy and narratives in football.
