The Anfield Wrap

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

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 clear against West Ham but there was also solidity from The Reds. Is this the new shape of things to come from Jurgen Klopp? The room is Andy Heaton, James McKenna, Ben Johnson and Rob Gutmann. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 and returns a hero. On this show she is joined by John Gibbons, Adam Melia and Neil Atkinson. Adam's climbed a hill as well. Neil interviewed the artist and DJ Jeffrey Hinton at the fantastic exhibition Creative Rage and he talks to us about his filmmaking techniques. Creative Rage is at The Gallery on Stanhope St in Liverpool. There is gig of the week and all the fun of the fair. Ten great slaps of new music. Tracklisting: Eliza and the Bear - Hell Purple Disco Machine - Love For Days The Luxembourg Signal - Are You Numb Girl Ray - Trouble Boy With Wings File Not Found (feat David Hoyle) Knox Fortune - 24 Hours Doumia - Menace Fever Ray - I Don't Know About You Daniele Luppi Ft Parquet Courts And Karen O - Tulisa Fox Grin - Black Tree Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 was it the circumstance? Is this team growing? We then talk to Steve Kelly, Sarah Nolan, Pete Weatherby and Elkan Abrahamson about the proposed Hillsborough Law. To find out more go to www.hillsboroughlaw.com. Emre Can has found himself unlikely to sign a new deal - what does everyone make of that? And how should Liverpool approach West Ham United? Neil Atkinson is joined by John Gibbons, Andy Heaton and Paul Senior. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 was it the circumstance? Is this team growing? We then talk to Steve Kelly, Sarah Nolan, Pete Weatherby and Elkan Abrahamson about the proposed Hillsborough Law. To find out more go to www.hillsboroughlaw.com. Emre Can has found himself unlikely to sign a new deal - what does everyone make of that? And how should Liverpool approach West Ham United? Neil Atkinson is joined by John Gibbons, Andy Heaton and Paul Senior. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 this in the last eight years so how did everyone feel about it? The club has had a difficult week and come out the other side with a victory. Neil Atkinson hosts and is joined by Philippa Smallwood, Rob Gutmann and Adam Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 - one where Liverpool didn't play any games. It will have been a week where the club could have a think about where they have found themselves and a chance for everyone to reflect and plan for what comes next. Pondering this is Neil Atkinson, Andy Heaton, Mo Stewart and John Gibbons and Neil is joined for ten minutes by Sean Rogers. Also there is a timely look at Klopp's Liverpool tenure and his history from Dave Segar whose book KLOPPITE - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kloppite-Mans-Quest-Doubters-Believers/dp/1785313061 is out now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 do. Tracklisting: Kailee Morgue - Medusa Strawberry Runners - Garden Hose Cults - I Took Your Picture Surf Rock is Dead - In Between Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals Pia Fraus - Never Again Land Mind Enterprises - Idol Rimbaudian - I Would Do Everything I Did Again And Again Charlotte Lawrence - Sleep Talking Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This Cup Of Tea show is fascinating conversation around policing at football matches, how it is changing and how it needs to change. Chief Superintendent Owen West of West Yorkshire Police has been working on the Enable project and wants football policing to become close to general event policing and away from the days gone by. Using examples from all his time at football matches, Owen talks through his vision for how supporters should be treated both home and away. Hosted by Gareth Roberts this is just short of 40 minutes for any match going football supporter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Liverpool simply have to improve. Having gifted Tottenham four goals we work through that, the aftermath and the agony of watching a season slip away. Why can't Liverpool manage a game better or defend with their lives? What needs to change? Can it? Neil Atkinson hosts as Gareth Roberts, John Gibbons and Ian Salmon savage the carcass of that game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 weekend that this Liverpool side should be going into with a lot of confidence. It is a game Liverpool should be looking to win while respecting their opponent and one which they can win if previous years are anything to go by. TAW also speaks to Mary Lily and Manoj Kuduvali from Liverpool Heart And Chest Hospital about their fundraising drive to bring the first Robotic Surgery unit to the city. To get involved go to www.lhchcharity.org.uk or call 0151 600 1409. The Anfield Wrap is hosted by Neil Atkinson and talking away about The Reds are John Gibbons, Ian Salmon and Josh McHugh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 while John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Ad Melia run riot across the show. We're all over the running, of course we are, the weekends and the stupendous new music. We want to know about your lawn, of course we do. Of course, of course. And Stephanie talks eloquently about the Harvey Weinstein revelations and the wider implications of the subsequent reaction and outpouring from other women. You want/need any more? The songs are good. The songs are great. Ten of them, all new. This is the best new music show out there, even while it falls apart at the seams. Thank you for listening. Tracklisting: Alex Lahey - I Haven't Been Taking Care Of Myself Wu Tang Clan - Why Why Why Haarm - Valentine Noname - Diddy Bop Blonde Maze - Thunder Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - In A World But Not Of The World Run The Jewels - Mean Demeanor Big Thief - Shark Smile Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Over Everything Flyte - Faithless Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more will be familiar with the flag made in his honour and the t-shirts that have been seen the world over, but some of you may not know about the foundation set up in his memory. In to talk to Andy Heaton about the Owen McVeigh Foundation are his Dad Mark and Adam Kearns who was instrumental in helping the McVeigh family set up the foundation and is a member of the foundation committee. Mark and Adam talk to Andy about the aims of the foundation, how it was set and some of the help that has been done in Owen’s memory. You can support the foundation in any number of ways, their website can be reached at http://owenmcveighfoundation.co.uk or you can purchase the now famous t-shirt at Hat Scarf or a badge on the following link http://hat-scarf-or-a-badge.com/Pre-Order-Owen-Mcveigh-Foundation-T-Shirt The foundation also has Facebook and Twitter profiles at the following addresses - Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/owenmcveighfoundation Twitter - https://twitter.com/mcveigh_owen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0, but not a game where Liverpool can feel either hard done to or disappointed with themselves. With Manchester United approaching the game looking for a smash and grab, how did The Reds respond? Should they have looked to push on or did they do the right thing staying solid? How did the fullbacks do? And what should we want and expect from Maribor? With a ton of Daniel Sturridge talk to go with everything else, this week's TAW show is a primer on everything currently happening with Liverpool FC. Neil Atkinson hosts with Goal.com's Melissa Reddy, Ben Johnson and Rob Gutmann all in for a long Sunday morning of Liverpool talk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. How much of a factor is last season's game in terms of what we can expect? What about the injuries? What are the expectations? We divert briefly to chat to Martin Fitzgerald about his book Ruth And Martin's Album Club. In the studio we have Neil Atkinson, Adam Smith, Rob Gutmann and John Gibbons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Week, the joys of Antwerp, and Blade Runner 2049. There is also talk of the running club that never meets. The songs are the business and we end with a chat about Automatic For The People from 1992 reissued next week on its 25th anniversary. Tracklisting: Kllo - Dissolve Ebenezer - Cliche Yumi Zouma - December Fatima Yamaha - Love Invaders Shout Out Louds - Ease My Mind My Sad Captains - Don't Listen To Your Heart Jamie Jones feat Katy B - Sound of Music Dave - Question Time Oscar and The Wolf - Infinity R.E.M. - Sweetness Follows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Jurgen Klopp as Liverpool manager. It's arguable that right now Klopp finds himself under the most pressure he has been under at the club and that he has set his own standards at a time it will be toughest to reach them. The second is that next Sunday (15th October) sees the seven year anniversary of FSG's acquiring of Liverpool. Theirs is a constant trade off in the debit and credit column and this is worked through not for the first time by The Anfield Wrap, hosted by Neil Atkinson and with Paul Senior, Adam Melia and Gareth Roberts. Gareth also speaks to Tony Zeverona, chairman of Prescot Cables on Non-League Day about his role and the challenges facing clubs such as his. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 football league division 1; Becky Ayres from Liverpool Sound City about their move back into the city; Michael Cox about his book The Mixer, a tactical history of The Premier League and Heather Carroll about Liverpool Ladies's start to the season. The Story of the First Division - https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-title-9781472936615/ The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-mixer-the-story-of-premier-league-tactics-from-route-one-to-false-nines/michael-cox/9780008215545 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"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 pulling a late one to get you the best new music we can. We discuss Kendrick touring, Lady Gaga's documentary and far, far more and we also play 10 great songs across the 90 minutes including Gig Of The Week. We hope you like it. Tracklisting: Hercules & Love Affair - Are You Still Certain? Lord Echo - The Sweetest Meditation (feat Mara TK) SUGARMEN - Our Gallows Behind The Shadow Drops - Positive Shadow Negative Light LUCES - Soak The Halamays - Smudge J Galvin feat Beyonce - Mi Gente TRACE - You Don't Know Me Banks - Underdog Veranden - Follow The Money Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices