The Anfield Wrap

Radio City Talk: A Long Weekend

23 Mar 2018

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Citytalk this week takes a long look at our tie against Manchester City, the way it will play out and the knock on effects for our season. What does e...

The Rider: Randy Scouse Git

23 Mar 2018

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Its four of us in a room and we're playing all your new favourite songs. Join Neil Atkinson, John Gibbons, Steph Heneghan and Adam Melia as we race th...

The Anfield Wrap: Mo Salah Lights Up Anfield As Reds Humble Hornets

19 Mar 2018

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It's all about Mo Salah on The Anfield Wrap today. He has confirmed his brilliance yet again over the weekend and his four goal haul in destroying Wat...

The Rider: Lost The Piano

19 Mar 2018

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There is nothing quite like eight great new songs and we very much have them this week. The music is tremendous - so good Adam wanted to play half of ...

Radio City Talk: Can The Reds Swot The Hornets Aside?

16 Mar 2018

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Citytalk this week takes a long look at our tie against Manchester City, the way it will play out and the knock on effects for our season. What does e...

The Anfield Wrap: Misery In Manchester As Jose Does A Job On Liverpool

12 Mar 2018

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With possibly only a derby defeat being more difficult to swallow, Liverpool returned from Manchester with nothing after a typically calculated perfor...

The Rider: Thumbs Down

12 Mar 2018

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The Rider this week is a blank sheet. A blank sheet to work through with a variety of topics:  Afternoon tequila  The best night out in the...

Radio City Talk: Getting In Early

09 Mar 2018

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This week The Anfield Wrap looks into what's going on at Dulwich Hamlet with Andi Thomas, talks being a woman in football journalism with Melissa Redd...

The Anfield Wrap: Relentless Reds Roar Past Rafa's Newcastle

05 Mar 2018

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An excellent win against Newcastle is discussed here on The Anfield Wrap. The calm of Liverpool and the way The Reds attack is given a long look befor...

The Rider: Back In Town

05 Mar 2018

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A belated show but a return to The Rider's core. Neil Atkinson hosts as John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia all get back in the saddle and...

Radio City Talk: No Old Pals Act

02 Mar 2018

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We have Liverpool Ladies, a massive press conference, and a trip to the Forever Reds. And we have a big look ahead to the game against Newcastle. ...

The Anfield Wrap: Reds Seize Initiative In Top Four Race After Irons Hammering

26 Feb 2018

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After a fantastic performance against West Ham United The Anfield Wrap reflects on how well Liverpool played and how well they have been playing in ge...

Radio City Talk: Liverpool To Capitalise On Moyes Terrible Anfield Record

23 Feb 2018

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With West Ham on the horizon Jurgen Klopp goes into the weekend knowing a victory of David Moyes West Ham United would strengthen Liverpool's grip on ...

The Rider: Mo Likes Milk

23 Feb 2018

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John Gibbons hosts this weeks Rider with able and willing support from Mo Stewart, Adam Melia and Lizzi Doyle.  They discuss filling a Glastonbury...

The Terrace: Spion Kop 1906

21 Feb 2018

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In a new TAW Player show focusing on Liverpool FC fan culture, Gareth Roberts speaks to Adam Kearns and Sam Evans about Spion Kop 1906 - a group of fa...

The Anfield Wrap: Question Time

19 Feb 2018

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Gareth Roberts hosts an Anfield Wrap with a difference as we take questions from Facebook and Twitter about anything and everything about Liverpool FC...

Radio City Talk: Porto Pulverised As Reds Run Riot

16 Feb 2018

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The Reds have smashed the absolute bells out of Porto and joining Neil Atkinson to reflect on Liverpool Porto annihilation are Eddie Ginn, Ian Salmon ...

The Anfield Wrap: A Rare Routine Win For The Reds Keeps Them Right In The Race

12 Feb 2018

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A run of the mill 0-2 win away from home? With this Liverpool team? And yet run of the mill victories have indeed become part of this season's pack...

Radio City Talk: Can Liverpool Be The Real Pantomime Villains At St Marys?

09 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Citytalk this week fires the starting pistol on the run in. With 12 league games to go what can Liverpool look to achieve this season and how do they ...

The Rider: One Day There Will Be Presents

09 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week The Rider revisits some old friends with new material and some old topics. What are we having for our tea for example? You've heard that bef...

The Anfield Wrap: Spurs Draw Ref Justice For Reds

05 Feb 2018

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So much to talk about in Liverpool 2 Tottenham 2. Shall we run down the list? Liverpool's excellent first half approach. Salah's brilliance. ...

Radio City Talk: Payback Time

02 Feb 2018

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Liverpool face Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield this Sunday looking to avenge their 4-1 mauling at White Hart Lane earlier this season and put breathing s...

The Rider: If You Are A Scottish Lord...

01 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Scottish wine, leap years and Courtney Cox not understanding Neil Atkinson are the order of the day for The Rider. You know how these things tend to w...

TAW Moments In Time: Kenny Dalglish Leaves Liverpool

01 Feb 2018

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This is the first in a series of free audio documentaries, brought to you by The Anfield Wrap, reliving significant days in the history of Liverpool F...

Transfer Shy Reds At Risk Of Unravelling

29 Jan 2018

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Gareth Roberts hosts this week's show and is joined by Mike Nevin and Andy Heaton to try and make sense of a week in which Liverpool have gone from jo...

Radio City Talk: A Bounce Back Weekend?

26 Jan 2018

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A packed Citytalk show sees The Anfield Wrap look at Liverpool's likely approach to the FA Cup this season and West Brom on Saturday night. Saturday n...

The Rider: Spectrums Of Funk

26 Jan 2018

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Lizzi Doyle joins us and we love her and can be best described as overexcited. Loads of chat about spin because it appears to dominate lives these day...

Liverpool's Unbeaten Streak Snuffed Out By Swans

23 Jan 2018

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Taff to take for Liverpool at Swansea as they ended their unbeaten run in South Wales. Was it a bad approach from Klopp and his players or more likely...

Radio City Talk: Tainted Gloves

19 Jan 2018

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The Rider: I'm Very Young

17 Jan 2018

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There is no John Gibbons and no Adam Melia this week and so there have been substitutions. Emilia Bona and Joe Connolly are in talking about:  D...

Free Podcast: Reds Fire And Fury Too Much For Man City

15 Jan 2018

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What a win to go through - a massive victory for The Reds as they vanquished Manchester City from Anfield. Great performances all over the park fro...

Radio City Talk: Can Klopp's Pep Talk Send City Packing?

12 Jan 2018

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Neil Atkinson was joined for this week’s Radio City Talk show by Mel Reddy, Paul Cope and Rob Gutmann. Rob also has a chat with John Gibbons abou...

The Rider: The One Where We All Pick Bands Adam Has Picked Before

11 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On The Rider this week we talk about Friends, depict quiet weekends and imagine what John's cabinet would look like. Anyone want to create a partnersh...

Free Ten Minute Preview - The Gutter: Moving On

08 Jan 2018

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Hosted by Rob Gutmann, our Gutter show delves deep into the boggy cesspit of transfer speculation. Here is little 10 minute preview of the latest e...

Free Podcast: Cou Says Goodbye, van Dijk Says Hello

07 Jan 2018

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With a a club record transfer and a Merseyside Derby victory to discuss The Anfield Wrap isn't short of material this week. We start with off the f...

The Rider: New Year Wrong Topic

06 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A new year and The Rider looking ahead to everything within it with ten new fabulous songs, some admin on air, the desire for new features and a whole...

Free Podcast: Coutinho Conundrum Casts Shadow Over Derby Cup Showdown

04 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Neil Atkinson was joined by Andy Heaton, Mo Stewart and Dan Austin for a free midweek podcast looking forward to the Friday night derby under the ligh...

Free Podcast: Liverpool Outfox Wiley Leicester

31 Dec 2017

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What a victory for Liverpool against Leicester - a game which had a bit of everything. A brace, a ton of needle and Harry Maguire's big head. Liverpoo...

Liverpool v Leicester City / Burnley v Liverpool: The Team Talk

29 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

John Gibbons hosts the latest edition of The Team Talk to talk Leicester at Anfield and Burnley away. Ian Ryan, Gareth Roberts and Mo Stewart are i...

The Friday Show Clip: Guto Llewelyn On Swansea

28 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

On today's Friday show we were joined on the phone we're joined by Guto Llewelyn of The Jackcast to talk about the new appointment of Carlos Carvalhal...

Liverpool 5 (Five) Swansea 0 (Nil): The Review

27 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A TAW Player Christmas Freebie! A longer Review show as The Anfield Wrap takes the opportunity to relax into The |Reds after a 5-0 win at home to S...

Free Podcast: Liverpool's Back Four Go Cold Turkey

24 Dec 2017

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Liverpool have yet again thrown points away from a winning position. What should Jurgen Klopp be doing about this? What could the consequences be? ...

The Rider: Qwark

23 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It's the Christmas edition of The Rider and as such there is lots of talk of little drinks, nights out and decorations. There are festive tunes. There...

Free Podcast: Bourne Again Winners

18 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Anfield Wrap this week takes a long look at Liverpool's fantastic 0-4 win at Bournemouth and dwell on the sheer quality of that front three. T...

Radio City Talk: Bouncing Back?

15 Dec 2017

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The Rider: Is Is

13 Dec 2017

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Free TAW Special: Knives, Knuckle Dusters And Policing Gone Wrong

12 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Gareth Roberts and John Gibbons speak to Rob Sutherland, online editor of the "Five Year Plan" fanzine, about claims by Sussex Police that Crystal Pal...

Free Podcast: Derby Day Despair For Sucker Punched Reds

11 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Post derby despair for the Reds off the back of a 1-1 defeat against an Everton side so negative it would make Moyes blush. Joining Neil Atkinson f...

Radio City Talk: Can The Reds Put The Blues To Bed?

08 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Seven against Spartak. What about Everton? One of the things about a big win is that it concentrates the mind on the next game. You just want to...

The Rider: The Fourth Wall

08 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A cast of thousands as Stephanie Heneghan has been inviting whoever she likes to this week's Rider. Therefore the usual suspects are joined by Joe Con...

Midnight Caller: To Hull With It

06 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

While we completely understandably obsess over the top of the Premier League up and down the country football clubs are going through their own trials...

The Rider: Steaming Carroll

06 Dec 2017

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Neil Atkinson hosts another Rider where things find themselves collapsing into a ditch in glorious fashion. The more these podcasts come, the more the...

Free Podcast: Liverpool's Brighton High Five

04 Dec 2017

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Joining Gareth Roberts to discuss Liverpool’s five-star performance against Brighton are Melissa Reddy, Paul Senior and Dan Austin. Are we seeing...

Radio City Talk: Score Like An Egyptian

01 Dec 2017

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Neil Atkinson is joined by John Gibbons, Adam Melia and Andy Heaton for the week's City Talk show to talk all things Brighton & Hove Albion and Liverp...

Free Podcast: Klopp's Reds Going Round In Circles

27 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A rotated and frustrated evening at Anfield gets a long look from The Anfield Wrap. The selection and the substitutions get examined in depth and at l...

Radio City Talk: Can Liverpool Strike Back Against Conte's Blues?

24 Nov 2017

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Here we go again as the Chelsea game has emerged into view this week on Citytalk. The focus has been Sevilla given the nature of Liverpool's collap...

Free Podcast: Stewarding And Policing In Sevilla - An Anfield Wrap Special

24 Nov 2017

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Free Podcast: Stewarding And Policing In Sevilla - An Anfield Wrap Special On a show initially recorded for our weekly Anfield Wrap video, The Wrap...

The Rider: Oh So Quiet

23 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It's constant chaos on this week's Rider with big Thursdays to be worked through and Bangers sought. It's gone quiet for releases as the sages rea...

TAW Special: Live From Seville

21 Nov 2017

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Liverpool are in Seville and therefore The Anfield Wrap is sunning itself. It has also bumped into the brilliant Brian Reade. Neil Atkinson, Gareth Ro...

TAW Special: Dan Hewitt On Tony Pulis Getting The Bullet

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

As part of this week's 'Coach Home' Neil Atkinson and John Gibbons spoke to ITV's Dan Hewitt about West Brom's decision to part company with manager T...

Free Podcast: Sorry Saints Swept Aside By Relentless Reds

20 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Liverpool put their most controlled performance of the season in against Southampton. But they all had their best four attackers on the pitch. What di...

Radio City Talk: Can The Reds Smash The Saints?

17 Nov 2017

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The Anfield Wrap on Radio Citytalk this week is all excited about Liverpool returning to action after the international break. What can we expect? Wha...

The Rider: Sooty And Sweep

16 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It's ridiculous they let us do this. The Rider this week is quorate. Stephanie Heneghan is back and she is no longer unwell. She is, in fact, well. Ve...

TAW Special: Save Grassroots Football

15 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

As Premier League clubs spent a record-breaking £1.4billion in the summer transfer window, at the bottom of the football pyramid teams continue to st...

Free Podcast: Liverpool's Not So Great Expectations

13 Nov 2017

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JOINING Gareth Roberts for a post-international break assessment of Liverpool's season so far and the ambitions that remain are Andy Heaton, Paul Seni...

Cup Of Tea: Amanda Jacks on Stewarding And British Transport Police

13 Nov 2017

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Gareth Roberts is joined by Amanda Jacks, a caseworker for The Football Supporters' Federation who helps fans with policing and stewarding issues. ...

Radio City Talk: Triple Booked

10 Nov 2017

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Neil Atkinson hosts a book heavy international break edition of our Radio City Talk show. Joining him is Simon Hughes to talk about his latest book...

The Rider: Early Afternoon Frolics

09 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

No Stephanie! She has been laid low and signed off meaning that Neil Atkinson, John Gibbons and Adam Melia must soldier on, on an unlikely afternoon r...

Free Podcast: Klopp's New System Get's Bilic The Bullet

06 Nov 2017

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After a fantastic win against West Hame United, The Anfield Wrap has stock on where the season and Liverpool's squad is. Liverpool's pace was clea...

The Rider: Content Maniac

06 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Stephanie Heneghan puts her medals on the table in this week's belated edition of The Rider. She went to Dublin, loved the people, did the business an...

Radio City Talk: Liverpool To Put The Hammer Down?

03 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Anfield Wrap this week covers a lot of ground. We start talking about Maribor at home. Liverpool showed a load of patience. Was this planned or wa...

TAW Special: Hillsborough Law

03 Nov 2017

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The Anfield Wrap this week covers a lot of ground. We start talking about Maribor at home. Liverpool showed a load of patience. Was this planned or wa...

Free Podcast: No Old Pals Act As Liverpool Humble Huddersfield

30 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A victory for Liverpool against Huddersfield Town that feels mundane and strange in equal measure. We haven't had many wins or even performances like ...

Radio City Talk: Can Liverpool Tame The Terriers?

27 Oct 2017

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The Anfield Wrap on Radio Citytalk this week gets into what could well prove to be one of the most important week's of Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool reign ...

The Rider - The Can Can

27 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Neil Atkinson hosts The Rider as John Gibbons and Adam Melia work through the new music week and look back to Adam climbing something as he loves to d...

Cup Of Tea: Chief Superintendent Owen West

25 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This Cup Of Tea show is fascinating conversation around policing at football matches, how it is changing and how it needs to change. Chief Superintend...

Free Podcast: Rudderless Reds Exposed By Spurs

23 Oct 2017

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Liverpool abject against Tottenham and The Anfield Wrap is not messing about. It's a performance and result which could come to define a season and Li...

Radio City Talk: Will Reds Revel In Spurs' Wembley Woes

20 Oct 2017

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The Anfield Wrap on Citytalk this week is looking back at a 0-7 hammering of Maribor and looking ahead to a massive game against Tottenham at the week...

The Rider - Last Big Mow Of The Year

18 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Rider is ever so slightly out of its natural habitat and more than ever so slightly giddy. Neil Atkinson hosts in the loosest sense of the word wh...

TAW Special: The Owen McVeigh Foundation

16 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Many Liverpool fans will have heard the name Owen McVeigh, the 11 year-old Liverpool fan who tragically lost his life to Leukaemia in 2015, and even m...

Free Podcast: Reds Held By Man United But Liverpool Anything But Stale

15 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0, but not a game where Liverpool can feel either hard done to or disappointed with themselves. With Manchester Unite...

Radio City Talk: Bring On Yer Manchester United

13 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Anfield Wrap on Citytalk focusses all its energies on Liverpool vs Manchester United; a game which feels as though it has so much riding on it. ...

The Rider - Onion Gravy

12 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Wham heavy this week on the Rider, hosted by Neil Atkinson. He's joined by John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia to work through Gig Of The ...

Free Podcast: A Tale Of Two Anniversaries

09 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Two current Liverpudlian anniversaries dominate this week's Anfield Wrap. The first is that Sunday 8th October marked the end of the second year of Ju...

Radio City Talk: Bookends

06 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A different Anfield Wrap this week sees Neil Atkinson chat away all over the place. He speaks to Scott Murray, author of The Title, the history of ...

The Rider - Shout Outs

06 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"It's after 9 o'clock and we've all lost our heads." Even by its own standards this week, The Rider is a bit all over the place. We're very much p...

Free Podcast: Rafa Rocks Rotten Reds

02 Oct 2017

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Another weekend ruined as Liverpool contrive once again to throw away a win with a painfully lacklustre and all to familiar display at St James Park. ...

Radio City Talk: Liverpool Look To Bloody Benitez's Nose

29 Sep 2017

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A massive show. We have Loyle Carner in to talk about Liverpool FC, his album and tour, and Newcastle away. We are all a bit giddy. We're also join...

The Rider: Hungry Horace

29 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Another guest. They don't stop coming. A few weeks back Ghostpoet joined The Rider over the phone for a lovely chat about Margate, his new album and t...

Free Podcast: Liverpool Find Form Against Foxes

24 Sep 2017

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Everyone is still a bit giddy after Liverpool's fantastic 2-3 win over Leicester full of fight and character and no little quality. The Anfield Wrap's...

Radio City Talk: Reds After Revenge At Leicester

22 Sep 2017

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This week's Citytalk show is a lovely long conversation between four Liverpool supporters making sense of the club's result downturn in results and th...

The Liverpool Ladies Show: New Beginnings

21 Sep 2017

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A new Ladies season is upon us and The Anfield Wrap has a new free show looking at the new season, new signings and the first game of the season again...

The Rider: Frasier and Niles

21 Sep 2017

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Cavalier Song are in for a chat about their new album "A Deep Well" and their tour in the next week or so. The album is available here from Bandcamp: ...

Free Cup Of Tea: Watching Football Is Not A Crime

20 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

GARETH Roberts is joined by Professor Clifford Stott, a researcher into crowds, riots and policing to discuss recent events in football including the ...

Free Podcast: Liverpool Fail To Break Down Burnley

17 Sep 2017

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The Anfield Wrap this week is looking back on a disappointing week for Liverpool, crowned by a frustrating performance against Burnley. Discussing how...

Radio City Talk: Liverpool To Take Burnley To Task?

15 Sep 2017

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A packed hour of radio from The Anfield Wrap with a chat about Sevilla, Liverpool's work in the community and a look ahead to Burnley all on the agend...

The Rider: Penvelope

14 Sep 2017

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The Rider this week has a guest! Craig Pennington from both Bido Lito and Liverpool PsychFest is in the house and he tons of Psych to talk about with ...

Cup Of Tea: Les Lawson

12 Sep 2017

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Cup of Tea: Les Lawson Les Lawson is a name familiar to many Reds as the secretary of the Merseyside branch of the official Liverpool Supporters' C...

Free Podcast: Liverpool Mauled By Man City

10 Sep 2017

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A dreadful result but how bad was the performance? Well a couple of The Anfield Wrap thinks it was really rather abject from Liverpool against Manches...

Radio City Talk: On The Brink

08 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

As Liverpool enter a crucial part of the season, John Gibbons is joined by Simon Hughes, Dan Fieldsend and Mike Nevin to analyse the international bre...