The Anfield Wrap

Gareth Roberts is back over the water again to speak to Tranmere Rovers owner and chairman Mark Palios about their return to the football league after a dramatic playoff victory over Boreham Wood at Wembley, a game in which they had to play for 89 minutes with 10 men.

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This is a taster of our Champions League preview show in the build up to Wednesday's game against Real Madrid.

If you'd like to listen in full, you can enjoy all our build up and reaction show to Liverpool's Champions League Semi Final for just £5 a month. 

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Adam Melia has climbed Snowden. I mean, it was always on the cards, wasn't it? Up Snowden and down dale. It's the culmination of all the walking. And perhaps a new beginning. 

You want more? We have so much more. Steph Heneghan didn't like a tea out. That wasn't on the cards. But we are where we are. You have to make the best of these things. 

They've measured another run incorrectly. What are they playing at? John Gibbons this time finds himself having over extended not underperformed. 

And at the centre of it all Neil Atkinson tries to hold it together and somehow get us from song to song. There is more Wham than a 1984 Christmas Party. And we give it away. 

Tracklisting: 

Riton & Kah-Lo - Ginger 

Charlotte Gainsbourg - Les Oxalis (Alan Braxe remix) 

The Longcut - Arrows 

Half Man Half Biscuit - Every Time A Bell Rings 

Peggy Gou - Travelling Without Arriving 

SALES - White Jeans 

Azealia Banks - Anna Wintour 

Nellie McKay - Small Day Tomorrow

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Every week The Anfield Wrap takes a long look at Liverpool's weekend game and wonders about the approach from The Reds and their opponents. This week though we are looking ahead, imagining we are in the shoes of Jurgen Klopp and Zinedine Zidane and wondering what the pair will be contemplating before this Champions League Final.

Klopp has fewer choices; his side plays in his image and he has been loathe to change set up through the season. Zidane has selection headaches but also has selection opportunities.

This is a game which looks on paper to demonstrate the Review's consistent maxim that your greatest strengths can be your greatest weaknesses. We discuss that in the context of both sides set ups and focus on Modric and Kroos.

Sean Rogers and Paul Cope join Neil Atkinson to be excited about everything in store for us on Saturday night.

This show is out as a freebie due to The Anfield Wrap's year long partnership with Redsbet. Today their parent company Fansbet sees the launch of the initiative around Rail Seating they have worked on with Shrewsbury Town. Neil is joined by John Gibbons on discuss this. Fansbet can be found here and Redsbet's Liverpool specials for the final are available here.

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The Anfield Wrap starts to look ahead to the week of Liverpool's eighth European Cup Final filled with excitement, trepidation, joy. All the obvious stuff.

We work through all the feelings and get into the facts - how good our opponents are, what this means to Liverpool, what can be expected from the game and how it will be approached.

We also speak to the producer of the Mo Salah documentary screening this week on Channel 4. Tony Pastor has years of experience of documenting the brilliance of footballers but he has had to pull this one about Salah together quickly. He lets us know how good it will be on Channel 4 at 10pm on Tuesday.

Then we are back at it, back at The Reds and their brilliance. Can they punish any complacency from Real Madrid.

Neil Atkinson hosts and is joined by Sanj Shetty, Dan Morgan and belatedly by Stu Wright.

The Anfield Wrap is supported by Redsbet this year. Find their Champions League specials here but do remember to begambleaware.org

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A wide ranging Citytalk this week starts off with Ian Salmon and James Sutton talking about the play they are collaborating on called Venus Rising.

Then we talk to Samantha Johnson about her experiences making her way through her career as a black woman in sports media.

Grant Wahl is on talking about his marvellous book Football 2.0 which asks about what we expect of the modern footballer. 

Then we end with Michael Lambert talking about his projects with the NHS and PSS.

Neil Atkinson hosts our show.

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All back up high, all back in one place. The Rider works through a wide variety of topics including: 

Coping alcohol 

Wirral English 

Childish Gambino 

It does all the things it tends to do - go off on tangents and play eight great songs. Neil Atkinson does an approximate impression of a host with John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia sit in the wrong place and mess about telling jokes. 

We're not messing with the format. Just honing it. 

Tracklisting 

Young Fathers - Toy 

Childish Gambino - This is America 

Oddnesse - Trust 

Bella Boo - Fire 

FRANKIIE - Dream Reader 

Famous Problems - Every Girl 

Jon Hopkins - Neon Pattern Drum 

Dj koze- Pick Up

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In a Free TAW Special, Andy Heaton and Neil Docking sat down with WWE Superstar Sheamus, who is in town tonight for SmackDown LIVE at the Liverpool arena tonight.

Andy and Neil talk to Sheamus about his career and his path towards becoming a WWE Superstar before verging on to following the Reds from afar, the lengths it goes to watch the Reds on the road and how he think’s they’ll do in Kiev.

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Neil Atkinson hosts the last big show of the regular season to reflect on an utterly dominant display against Brighton & Hove Albion and he is joined by Andy Heaton, Rick McEvoy and Rob Gutmann.

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Citytalk this week presents Liverpool's season which is on the brink of greatness but can still fall apart into disappointment.

We have a chat about the allocation from UEFA and what can be done about that before looking ahead to Brighton.

Neil Atkinson hosts with John Gibbons, Fuad Hasan and Karl Coppack.

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