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. Tottenham's resilience. The atmosphere. The goalkeeper and the defence. And of course... ...the refereeing. That's right, The Anfield Wrap gets stuck into the refereeing. It needs to happen. This show is in association with Redsbet. To set up an account please click here. On this show are Gareth Roberts, Tim Smith and Ian Ryan; it is hosted by Neil Atkinson. This is our flagship show. We do previews and reviews around every game and for £5 a month you can hear all our content. Click here to to subscribe. The Anfield Wrap is in association with Redsbet, you can open an account here https://www.redsbet.com/en/home Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 space between themselves and Tottenham in the table. Joining host Neil Atkinson this week to preview the weekends action are Paul Cope, Mike Nevin and John Gibbons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 work by now. There is the loosest agenda outside of the songs and then suddenly there is all the wham in the world.  The songs though. The songs are phenomenal this week. Ten belters. The Rider is quorate and at its best.  Tracklisting:  Cakes Da Killa - Gon Blow (feat. Rye Rye)  Elle Watson - Suspended  Vandelux - Broken Man  Rico Nasty - Smack A Bitch  Alice Ivy - Chasing Stars  Klune - Hold On (feat. IVYE)  Britney Spears - Get Back  Dj Koze - Seeing Aliens  Baxter Dury - Prince of Tears  Ghost Music - Blindspot Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Football Club, in the words of those who were there to witness. Part one of “TAW Moments In Time” tells the story of Kenny Dalglish’s resignation as manager of Liverpool, one of the most groundbreaking couple of days in the club’s history, with the circumstances surrounding his departure in February 1991 still being debated and discussed to this day. Detailing the events of that fateful day are former players Bruce Grobbelaar and Glenn Hysen, former coach Roy Evans, journalists Graham Beecroft, Tony Evans, David Prentice, Brian Reade, Clive Tyldesley and Henry Winter, supporters Rob Gutmann, John Mackin, Mike Nevin and Kev Sampson, and TV presenter and daughter of Kenny, Kelly Cates. We hope you enjoy listening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 joy to abject despair. In a no-holds barred hour long discussion, every aspect of Liverpool's performance is pulled apart as the reds chances of silverware took another dent after defeat to West Bromwich Albion in the FA Cup. The show is followed by a sneak peek of our first ever 'TAW Moment In Time' audio documentary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 night? What do we all make of that? John Gibbons and Heather Carroll chat to Beth England and Alex Greenwood about Liverpool Ladies's season to date and the games to come. They also speak to manager Scott Rogers. Neil Atkinson and Mike Nevin pay tribute to Jimmy Armfield, a legend of the English game before all eyes are on West Brom and that fourth round tie. Joined by Tim Smith and Andy Heaton on top of everyone else, it's a great show with a cast of thousands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 days. Spin is out of control. Disco Spin. Hip-Hop Spin. 90s Spin. Spin this. Spin that. Spin the other.  Anyway.  The Rider has some terrific new songs lined up as well as spin. A few returning old friends and some new business all come together from Neil Atkinson, Adam Melia, Stephanie Heneghan and the aforementioned Lizzi.  We also talk to Lizzi about the Mental Health Marathon she worked on and we ask what everyone is reading.  Tracklisting  Young Fathers - In My View  Tracey Thorn - Queen  Parliament feat. Scarface – I’m Gon’ Make You Sick of Me  Sufjan Stevens - Tonya Harding  Milky Chance - Cocoon  Patawawa – Patagonia  Jaded - Pancake (feat. Ashnikko)  Public Access TV - Lost In The Game  Salad Boys - Exaltation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 just "one of them"? Did anyone play well? Is it too easy to forget that Liverpool had chances at 0-0 to open the scoring? In general though these have been the games Liverpool have been struggling in. Is there something underlying in that? Neil Atkinson hosts as Ian Salmon, Andy Heaton and Rob Gutmann chat through the game and this show is in association with Redsbet. To open an account click on the following link - http://bit.ly/TAWRedsBet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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:  Doing The Dishes  Roller Derby  Running  Whistling  Amazon Prime  Family Fortunes  Things Neil Has Got Wrong  Stephanie Heneghan and Neil Atkinson are still in. Still motoring.  It's the best new music show going. Get on board.  Tracklisting:  Karen O - Yo! My Saint (feat. Michael Kiwanuka)  Charli XCX - Out Of My Head (feat Tove Lo and ALMA)  Cupcakke - Crayons  Tune-Yards - Look At Your Hands  Unlikely Friends - Broken Again  Peggy Seeger - Gonna Be An Engineer  Romeo Void - A Girl In Trouble Is A Temporary Thing  Charlotte Gainsborough - Deadly Valentine (Soulwax remix)  Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Just Give Me Your Time Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 from The Reds - Emre Can, Gini Wijnaldum, Andy Robertson and our stellar front three all produced the goods. The goalkeeper is also a bone of contention. Neil Atkinson hosts as Melissa Reddy, Dan Morgan, Gareth Roberts and Mike Nevin are all in the room and we also get stuck into the transfer picture. The Anfield Wrap also announces our new partner https://www.redsbet.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 about the latest transfer happenings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 partnership with The Rider? You can't buy this type of unique content you know. The usual then? Well yes, because the usual is 10 great songs, this week they are some returning old friends. Neil Atkinson hosts, John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia are all doing the business. Come on board for the best new music show out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 edition with talk of Coutinho, Naby Keita and some fella called Alisson Joining Rob for the latest edition of the show is Melissa Reddy, Adam Melia and Paul Senior. Subscribe to TAW Player on the following link: https://www.theanfieldwrap.com/subscription/signup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 field matters. Philippe Coutinho has gone to Barcelona and where does this leave Liverpool's season? What should the next move be and what has brought this matters to this pass? To help us get the background on Coutinho and the club's next move we're joined by Paul Joyce, Northern Football Correspondent of The Times who has been very close to this story since the summer. We then go on to remember the glory of Friday night, Liverpool and Virgil van Dijk delivering a knock out blow to Everton's season while being far from their best. A sign of things to come or the end of an arduous Christmas period? Neil Atkinson hosts and is joined by Rob Gutmann, Adam Smith and Dan Morgan. This is our flagship show and is available for free but we do 50 other shows a month which are premium content.  You can subscribe here https://www.theanfieldwrap.com/subscription/signup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 new slab of Wham with a best before date of March 2018 rather than that stale stuff they were holding onto.  Neil Atkinson hosts insofar as anyone can as Stephanie Heneghan, Adam Melia and John Gibbons entertain us all for 87 whole minutes. What more can you ask for? The track list? Oh, OK then...  Anteros - Love  Cardi B - Bartier Cardi  Broken Records - They Won't Ever Leave Us Alone  Francis And The Lights - Morning  Yaeji - Raingurl  Firestations - Build A Building  Charli XCX feat Carly Rae Jepsen - Backseat  The Jet Age - Your Sweet Nothings  Shame - Concrete  Bullion - Blue Pedro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 lights with a chance to settle scores against Everton. Neil also chats to BBC Radio 5 Live's Conor McNamara about the magic of the FA Cup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Liverpool did the business when the pressure was on and the crowd responded. Joining Neil Atkinson to work through it all are John Gibbons, Gareth Roberts, Mike Nevin, Philippa Smallwood and Ian Salmon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 in the studio and are joined on the phone by Pete Selby and Tyrone Marshall to talk Leicester and Burnley respectively. John is then chats to Aizaz Sheikh for this week's travelling Cop and then Kev Sampson and John Mackin to talk Burnley away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 as Swansea manager and look to their season to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Swansea. We talk about their approach, what they could have done differently and about why this Liverpool side were so effective. Rob Gutmann hosts and is joined by Sean Rogers, Neil Atkinson and Karl Coppack for this look back to Swansea, look at the bigger picture and look ahead to Leicester and Burnley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Liverpool have yet again thrown points away from a winning position. What should Jurgen Klopp be doing about this? What could the consequences be? It was a frustrating game but one where Liverpool also played very well. The club though has some hard choices to face. And a game in two days. Swansea City are on the horizon for The Reds. Who should start in goal? Guto Llewelyn joins us on the phone; Steve Graves, Stu Wright and John Gibbons are all in the studio. It's The Anfield Wrap. Have a listen while doing the dinner.... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 is John's Spotify hacker. And there are songs of the year of sorts. Neil Atkinson hosts somewhat chaotically with John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia all cutting loose and feeling frisky. It's the perfect tonic to Christmas shopping and the stresses of the season. And the songs are good. Thanks for listening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. The intensity was there throughout from The Reds and their quality shone through. It's a chance to take a breath and assess the season as well and we have a little bit of Mancunian influence as Steve Armstrong joins to chat through the situation in the wider league picture. Mike Nevin is in too and he and Steve chat about their new project, working for a company called Fansbet. Neil Atkinson hosts, Gareth Roberts and John Gibbons are also in. What a win, what a gang of lads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Gareth Roberts and John Gibbons speak to Rob Sutherland, online editor of the "Five Year Plan" fanzine, about claims by Sussex Police that Crystal Palace fans were carrying knives and knuckle dusters at their game versus Brighton. Rob and the fanzine challenged the claims prompting a police u-turn and public statement. Gareth and John also speak to Amanda Jacks from the Football Supporters' Federation about the incident and how the media covered it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 for this week’s big show to trawl through a frustrating evening under a snow lit Anfield are Andy Heaton, Gareth Roberts, Paul Senior and Rob Gutmann. Has the sucker punch penalty decision coloured a display that was broadly fine, or where Liverpool to blame for allowing the Blues to claim the most undeserved point. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 see Liverpool play and win again. That goes double when the next game is the Derby. Talking about Everton we have Dave Downie from the Blue Room. Looking at the Liverpool week and the squad we have John Gibbons and Adam Smith. Holding it together in the middle is Neil Atkinson. It's The Anfield Wrap on Citytalk at its best. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Connolly and Rob Gutmann. She's also playing newcomers Frankie Goes To Hollywood. This is very much The Rider with its hair down but reapplying its make up before the big Christmas push. Neil Atkinson hosts, John Gibbons and Adam Melia are also in attendance and it is a barrel of laughs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 and tribulations. One was brought to The Anfield Wrap's attention on Monday night when the excellent Amber Nectar podcast beat TAW to the honour of winning the best club podcast award. In their acceptance speech they mentioned the ongoing issues with the Allam ownership. We wanted to discuss that and so on this Midnight Caller Neil Atkinson and John Gibbons spoke to Les Motherby about the podcast, winning the award but most importantly the way the football club is run mostly out of spite and not in what appears to be its own best interest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Neil Atkinson hosts another Rider where things find themselves collapsing into a ditch in glorious fashion. The more these podcasts come, the more they deconstruct themselves. Neil is joined by John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia and they are all having a ball. The songs are the business. Unexpected Holder Action. Everything you need. Sorry it is late... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Joining Gareth Roberts to discuss Liverpool’s five-star performance against Brighton are Melissa Reddy, Paul Senior and Dan Austin. Are we seeing a new version of Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool now? And why is the manager’s touchline behaviour coming in for such scrutiny? This and more on today’s free Anfield Wrap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Liverpool's current form as well as the man of the moment in Mo Salah. Neil and Andy also talk to David Squires about his new book 'The Illustrated History of Football: Hall of Fame'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 length. It's as much a conversation about Sevilla and Stoke as it is about Chelsea, though everyone was very impressed with the display from the Champions. Neil Atkinson hosts Dan Austin, Melissa Reddy and Rob Gutmann as they pick the bones out of that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 collapse and yet this is an enormous game for Liverpool's season. Neil Atkinson is joined by Paul Senior, Phil Blundell and John Gibbons and there is a clip from Raphael Honigstein and Andy Heaton chatting about Rafa's Jurgen Klopp book. You can buy that here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Free Podcast: Stewarding And Policing In Sevilla - An Anfield Wrap Special On a show initially recorded for our weekly Anfield Wrap video, The Wrap Up, which is available on our YouTube channel, Gareth Roberts, Neil Atkinson and Craig Hannan discuss the experiences in and around the match at Sevilla. Why are football fans seemingly treated so differently? Why were Liverpool supporters seemingly managed on reputation? And how can football clubs, football fans and football authorities work together to prevent similar happening again? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 ready their end of year lists. We still have gigs and 10 great songs. Neil Atkinson hosts as John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia do the business for 80 minutes of your time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Liverpool are in Seville and therefore The Anfield Wrap is sunning itself. It has also bumped into the brilliant Brian Reade. Neil Atkinson, Gareth Roberts and Craig Hannan chat to Brian about Liverpool's history in Europe and look ahead to tonight's game and the rest of the season. The Anfield Wrap finds itself in Seville thanks to Blue Air and they are flying out of Liverpool to a variety of different places including Milan, Alicante and Rome. https://www.blueairweb.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Tony Pulis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Liverpool put their most controlled performance of the season in against Southampton. But they all had their best four attackers on the pitch. What difference did this make? Discussing Coutinho deeper and Salah's astonishing start to the season with Neil Atkinson are Rob Gutmann, David Segar and Stuart Wright. They also take a look ahead to Sevilla and how Jurgen Klopp may approach that game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Anfield Wrap on Radio Citytalk this week is all excited about Liverpool returning to action after the international break. What can we expect? What will we see? Has the shape changed more than just once? We wonder about that, speculate on the side and imagine the Liverpool we will get to see this weekend and beyond. We've Heather Carroll updating us on the Ladies's progress too and an appeal for donations for a campaign around Hillsborough Law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Very well. More within. Neil Atkinson and John Gibbons have been to Berlin and are back to tell the tale. Has Adam climbed anything? I mean this all seems rather mundane but it's pretty much the most riotous 80 minutes of podcasting you can get. THRILL at John supporting Mary Beard. STAGGER at Steph's chest infection. BE INSPIRED by Sooty and Sweep. The songs are the business. The Rider is alive and well. Tracklisting: Jessica Boudreaux - Pulling Away Lindstrom - Sorry But It Isn't (Feat. Frida Sundemo) Sumie - Fortune Beach Slang - Bad Art And Weirdo Ideas (Quiet) Flight Facilities - Stranded feat. Broods, Reggie Watts & Saro The Zephyr Bones - Juglar Child On The Carousel N.E.R.D. & Rihanna - Lemon Haarm - Love In A Different Way Floating Points - Ratio Native Sun - I Don't Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 struggle to make ends meet. With ever-rising fees and facilities becoming increasingly rundown, the Save Grassroots Football campaign has launched a fresh petition in an attempt to persuade the government to impose a five per cent levy on the Premier League's broadcasting rights, with the money being reinvested into the grassroots game. Joining Josh Sexton and Simon Hughes to discuss the issues is Kenny Saunders, founder of the campaign, who highlights the intentions behind the latest petition and the next steps for the initiative. If you'd like to support the campaign, you can sign the petition here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/200094 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

JOINING Gareth Roberts for a post-international break assessment of Liverpool's season so far and the ambitions that remain are Andy Heaton, Paul Senior and Ben Johnson. Following qualification for the Champions League, hopes were high that The Reds would push on, improve the squad in the summer and aim high this season. But after the ups and downs of the campaign so far, have the sights shifted? What represents a good season for Liverpool now and how much can we trust this squad to deliver in the hectic period of fixtures to come? All this is discussed along with a look to the January transfer window. Will the Reds being doing business? What should it be? And what Liverpool players might be looking elsewhere to play football? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gareth Roberts is joined by Amanda Jacks, a caseworker for The Football Supporters' Federation who helps fans with policing and stewarding issues. The standard of stewarding is discussed, alongside a recent documentary screened on Channel 4 which focused on fans and "trouble on the trains". It's the third in a series of podcasts focusing on perception of football fans, how they are policed and stewarded, and how they are portrayed by the media. We've previously spoken to Chief Superintendent Owen West about policing methods, which you can listen to free here https://www.theanfieldwrap.com/2017/10/cup-tea-chief-superintendent-owen-west/ and Professor Clifford Stott, who researches police and crowd behaviour. That show is also free and can be listened to at https://www.theanfieldwrap.com/2017/09/free-cup-tea-watching-football-not-crime/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 'On The Brink', Mark Platt to talk about 'The Red Journey: Liverpool An Oral History Of Liverpool Football Club and finally Duncan Alexander to chat about 'Outside the Box: A Statistical Journey Through the History of Football'. For the last part of the show Neil chats to John Milburn, Sean McGivern and Jon Murphy about Man v Fat football tournament. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 recording. What to expect? What has Adam walked up now? How did John find Belfast? What was the score? Where is the Gig Of The Week? The show has it all apart from Steph. Get well soon! Tracklisting: Stylo G - Yu Zimme (All Star VIP remix) Prides - Let's Stay in Bed All Day Chicano Batman - Freedom Is Free The Yellow Melodies - Don't Think Twice Cassia - Out of Her Mind Princess Nokia - ABC's of New York Helena Hauff - Gift Goth Babe - Topanga The Occasional Flickers - Half Know Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices