IT’S back again. The exuberance by virtue of another win. The restoration of hope, over-optimism and delusion. The revitalisation brought by a new manager who pleads with his players to have fun, and to have fun winning. And I’m having fun. Still smiling through...
WHAT a day. What a glorious day. A day that’s left husks of Liverpool fans wearily smiling in work today after celebrating the unlikely to the max ever since. Well that’s the scene in our office anyway. As anyone who listened to Friday’s show on CityTalk can attest, I...
THE best nights are the unexpected ones. This is what you are in it for. Turn up at the best team in the country after getting beat at home last time out, and absolutely whallop them. Joe Hart their best player and we still score four. Show them the way to go home....
“SHOW them the way to go home. They’re tired and they want to go to bed. They’re only half a football team, Compared to the boys in Red.” Few stanzas as beautiful as that. Before a ball was kicked there was talk of City’s strength. On our...
“THERE used to be a football club over there,” said departing Tottenham Hotspur manager and newly-crowned UEFA cup winner, Keith Burkinshaw, as he left his job amid standard 1970-80s acrimony with his board of directors in May 1984. It’s a thoroughly...
THIS weeks Weekend Preview focusses on those setting the pace at the top of the table, expected or otherwise. Rob Gutmann is joined by Melissa Reddy, John Gibbons and Paul Senior to talk about top of the league Manchester City at Spurs, 4th place flyers Leicester...
A SHOW hosted by Rob Gutmann looking at games this weekend at Chelsea, Swansea, Southampton. Mourinho under pressure, Swansea suffering their first bad result and Southampton not yet looking like last year’s side. And what of Arsenal, Everton and Manchester...
LIVERPOOL Ladies were defeated 2-0 at the Academy Stadium by Manchester City Women in their final Continental Tyres Cup group game. Scouser and former Everton Ladies star Toni Duggan scored a first-half penalty for City, before Isabel Christianson sealed the victory...
THERE has been a collective loss of heads in the response to Raheem Sterling’s £49million move to Manchester City. Not at where the hell do Liverpool go from here after losing one of their brightest talents at the age of only 20, but with the idea that this is a...
THE most protracted and public of departures is finally sealed then. The briefing, the bullshit, the leaks, the accusations will be no more and Aidy Ward’s bull in a china shop approach to client representation will become Manchester City’s problem to deal with....
Due to a fixtureless weekend for the Reds this weeks Anfield Wrap is an Overview special looking at the Liverpool’s upcoming fixtures both domestically and in the Champions League.
Rob Gutmann hosts Phil Blundell, Ian Ryan and John Gibbons.
Also in the show Neil Atkinson talks to Emma Sanders about Matt Beard’s departure as manager of Liverpool FC Women.
