The Anfield Wrap

Normal service resumed at Anfield as Liverpool swotted aside West Ham in the 18/19 season opener, inflicting a four goal victory that did not flatter Jurgen Klopp's charges.

And with promising debuts for Naby Keita and Alisson Becker the Reds recorded their biggest opening day victory since 1932 without really getting out of 3rd gear.

Joining Neil Atkinson for this week's show is Rob Gutmann, Melissa Reddy and Paul Senior.

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Top of the tower, top of the hour, albeit a bit late, The Rider is back with tales of weekends long gone and lost, stories of kindness and a Man Called Steve. 

The full team are around and about and Neil Atkinson and John Gibbons have obviously been on their travels. 

Adam Melia and Stephanie Heneghan are the stars of the show as per. We have a long chat about Adam's social media explosion. Lukewarm, indeed. The tunes are anything but. Eight crackers. 

Tracklisting: 

French Horn Rebellion - Soy Bonita (feat. Marcy Chin) 

Travis Scott - Stop Trying To Be God 

Confidence Man - Boyfriend 

Spesh - Teflon 

Steve Monite - only you 

The Kid LAROI - Disconnect 

Jay Wile - Numb 

Michael Nau & The Mighty Thread - Less Than Positive

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Our new free show for every Friday - This is The Weekender. Expect something a bit more raucous than Citytalk but just as informative as The Anfield Wrap looks back on the Liverpool week, gets outside its bubble with Oli Kay, talks men's health with Manwell (thanks to Stuart Fitzgerald and Sean McGivern for coming in for that) and focusses on the weekend and the big start to the season against West Ham United.

Hosted by Neil Atkinson with Dan Morgan, Kev Walsh and Adam Melia all kicking back and getting excited.

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Fresh from another positive preseason performance having dispatched Napoli with aplomb by five goals to nil Neil Atkinson is joined for this weeks big show by Ian Salmon, Ian Ryan and John Gibbons for our first ever live streamed podcast.

What would Jurgen Klopp have taken from the Dublin friendly apart from a clean sheet on his debut for Alisson Becker, have any of the squad asked questions of the manager or put in enough to potentially change the mind of the manager with West Ham on the horizon?

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A summation of the summer and a look ahead to Napoli and a chat about the evolution of the LFC pre-season fanpark. 

Neil Atkinson is joined by John Gibbons, Ste Browne and Dan Morgan.

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It's the full room, it's top of the tower. The Rider at its best.

Looking back on the United States, looking back on Pride weekend, going through the business that needs to be got through.

AND NEW ROBYN!

That's right. We are backing Robyn without even having heard it. That's the faith The Rider has in the situation.

Mamma Mia. Here we go again.

Neil Atkinson hosts - John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia do the business. The tracklisting is here:

Eliza and the Bear - First Aid

The Internet - Hold On

Nilüfer Yanya- Baby Luv

Jawjaw - Worse Than It Seems

Gilligan Moss - What Happened

Leonard Cohen - You Want it Darker (Solomun Remix)

Robyn - Missing U

Bjorn Torske - Fanfatas

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This week's Anfield Wrap takes stock of where Liverpool are at this stage of the preseason. 

They have bounced through the American tour and enjoyed themselves as they go about their business.

Both Sadio Mane and Mo Salah have returned from their summers looking sharp. Daniel Sturridge is still grabbing people's attention and Xherdan Shaqiri did very well on his first start.

What should our expectations be for this campaign to come? Should there be a ceiling on those expectations? Are we setting ourselves up for a fall?

Neil Atkinson hosts with Dan Austin, Adam Melia and Ian Salmon on the panel.

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Liverpool's preseason continues apace and now the first game is very much on the horizon. Liverpool face West Ham in less than three weeks.

The Anfield Wrap takes stock on Citytalk this week about where those preparations are up to. Both Mo Salah and Sadio Mane have returned to the fold and both looked very sharp against a young Manchester City.

We have a clip from our interview with Jürgen Klopp. That talk was fascinating is available in full through our subscription service. We also have the same with Andy Robertson, a man who now feels very much part of the furniture at Anfield even though he has really only emerged this year.

We chat about Curtis Jones and Rafa Camacho both making strong claims for themselves being available in Liverpool's first team squad and we dwell on exactly how the United States has been for The Reds.

The Anfield Wrap is hosted by Neil Atkinson and he is joined by Gareth Roberts, Craig Hannan and John Gibbons from a Detroit hotel room.

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The Rider this week sees Neil Atkinson, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia joined by Joe Connolly to talk about his Port Sunlight life.

This mostly consists of tutting at strangers who do not pass Port Sunlight muster and arguing the area is becoming gentrified. They have a Vietnamese don't you know.

What else? Well Neil is about to go away (which is real time means he has gone away) to the United States so there is a chat about that. Gig of the week is back, the banger is in there.

And there is eight good songs. Which there always is.

A genuine pleasure all round.

Tracklisting:

Lizzo - Boys

Ciara - Level Up

Strange Collective - Super Touchy

Bromheads Jacket - Poppy Bird

SOPHIE - Is It Cold In The Water

Style Council - Long Hot Summer

RAYE - Friends

Tirzah - Affection

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Liverpool fan and WWE superstar Zack Gibson joins Andy Heaton and Neil Docking to talk about his journey so far - including his recent WWE UK Championship Tour success - his first memories of being a Red, how he keeps up with Jürgen Klopp's side on the road and what he hopes the future holds for his career in professional wrestling.

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