The Anfield Wrap

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 the selection question marks the manager is faced with.

Neil Atkinson is joined by Paul Cope, Steve Graves and John Gibbons for the sheer thrill of live TAW radio and the three look ahead to the Leicester game

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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 against Everton.

On the show we speak to new signing Bethany England, manager Scott Rogers, young, emerging prospect Amy Rodgers and captain Gemma Bonner.

Everyone is open, honest and excited. A new, bigger winter campaign and a new start for the league.

Hosted by a collective of Heather Carroll, John Gibbons and Neil Atkinson this is the start of The Anfield Wrap’s Liverpool Ladies coverage for the new campaign.

*Please note that this show was recorded before Mark Sampson was dismissed as England Women’s head coach.

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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:

https://godunknownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-deep-well

Beyond that everyone went to see LCD Soundsystem and 3 of the 4 Riderers (Neil Atkinson, Stephanie Heneghan, John Gibbons and Adam Melia) remember how good it was. Which one doesn't? Find out.

More? John Gibbons laughs so hard he turns his eyelids inside out.

And 10 great songs.

Everything, indeed, you need.

Tracklisting:

Cut Copy - Black Rainbows

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GARETH Roberts is joined by Professor Clifford Stott, a researcher into crowds, riots and policing to discuss recent events in football including the Arsenal v FC Köln match, the reaction to fans celebrating Manchester City’s late goal at Bournemouth and more.

There is a also a wider discussion in this free Cup of Tea show about perception of football fans and how that can be challenged and changed.

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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 Liverpool have failed to score 4 or more against a bottom 13 side this calendar year and that even 3s have been rare, the discussion isn't just that of the defending.

Philippe Coutinho's predilection for shots from distance has returned. Did Liverpool open Burnley up enough? And did they deal well enough with their approach?

Neil Atkinson hosts as Rob Gutmann, Paul Senior and Dan Morgan get stuck into these questions and more.

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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 agenda.

Sevilla was a major disappointment for The Reds, having played some excellent football. Tony Barrett joins us to talk about the work Liverpool have been doing in the community. Sean Rogers joins to look ahead to Burnley and then John Gibbons and Paul Senior are on to talk through the game to come.

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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 the marvellous festival on the horizon.

He picks a song and chats about the work done to make this year's festival one he is very excited about.

Elsewhere John Gibbons has left a ton of things to do and disappeared off meaning Neil Atkinson, Steph Heneghan and Adam Melia are making this week's Rider happen with talk of New York, uneven hair and long runs. LCD Soundsystem's new album gets reviewed too showing there is more than Wham to The Rider. Not lots more but a tiny little bit.

All that you could want or need coming at you. Plus nine great songs. What are they, you ask? Here we go...

Belle and Sebastian - We Were Beautiful

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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' Club.

This summer, Les, despite leading what he believed to be a relatively healthy lifestyle, suffered a heart attack. Here, he speaks to Gareth Roberts and John Gibbons about what happened, his recovery, his roots as a Red and his proud record of attending every home game since the 1976-77 season (a record which continues!).

Les is also trying to raise awareness of the warning signs for heart problems. Official figures show that in the UK alone 160,000 people die from heart and circulatory disease every year and 73,000 people die from coronary heart disease.

We also speak to Les about the support and messages he received from Reds all over the world, from fans to ex-players.

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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 Manchester City and that both players and manager should be expecting more and better.

Both the defence and the midfield three come under real criticism and the key decision of the game is discussed at length. Was Jon Moss right to send Mane off? Was it a terrible decision? Or just demonstrative of the balancing act referees have to go through? And what about Mo Salah's performance and half time substitution?

To pick the bones out of all this and far more from the game for 80 minutes Neil Atkinson is joined by Philippa Smallwood, Mo Stewart and Stu Wright. We don't talk about 5-0 reverses on The Anfield Wrap so this one is unique. It had best stay that way.

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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 break from a Liverpool point of view and look forward to a massive game away at Manchester City.

In part 2 we also speak to Simon about his new book On The Brink, which focuses on the current state of football at all levels in the North West of England.

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