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The Anfield Wrap

Weekender: ESL, Newcastle & The Next Generation

The Anfield Wrap

The Anfield Wrap

Music, Sports, Soccer

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

John Gibbons hosts Lizzi Doyle, Kev Walsh and Phil Blundell to look back over the week's Super League madness and ahead to Newcastle. Also on the show, Harrison Worden hosts a panel of young Anfield Wrap stars in Chloe Bloxam, Cam Rimmer and Sam Evans to talk about the impact of the European Super League situation in reference to the next generation of Liverpool fans and football fans in general. And lastly, Neil Atkinson speaks to author and journalist Michael Calvin about his new book 'Whose Game Is It Anyway? Football, Life, Love & Loss' written about football's much-changed relationship with fans at the height of the pandemic which has become even more apt after the events of this past week. Subscribe to TAW Player for more reaction to all the news and events that matter to you, including interviewswith special guests and documentaries about players and staff past and present… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network.

0:04.4

Hello, it's the weekend and it's John Gibbons hosting this week and I'm joined by

0:07.4

Lizidoyle by Kev Walsh and by Phil Blundell and Azerbaijan.

0:10.4

We'll be looking at Liverpool Football Club this week and also a couple of

0:13.8

inserts as well. We've got Harrison is our youth correspondence with a few others

0:19.0

who are going to look at what they've made of this week really and it's an under 20s crowd so a little bit of a different kind of vibe and see if there's any sort of difference really with people who've maybe grown up with football in a slightly different way to those of us who are dead old.

0:33.6

Also, speaking about people, Neil, as interviewed Michael Calvin,

0:38.4

who's released a book called Whose Game is it Anyway,

0:40.6

which is absolutely brilliant time.

0:42.2

I bet his publishers are made up with all of this

0:44.9

whose game is it anyway which has come out this week I think it is from Michael Calvin released a book every year

0:50.6

Michael is prolific but yeah so Neil on that and then we'll be

0:54.6

obviously looking ahead to Saturday's game but we'll start with Leeds and in

0:58.6

context with obviously the week that's gone and where were you with the game on Monday night Lizzy was it was it when you were all full or was it when you were sort of struggling to sort of get off for as much with everything else that was going on?

1:11.6

I struggled so oh yeah you wouldn't have seen because you were you were a

1:15.8

m at taggies but obviously we were in the office working and it just passed me by

1:20.6

and it got appointed the second half when I was like oh I'm on the post match passed me

1:25.0

by by by the second half when I was like I'm on the post-match pints I need to start watching this.

1:27.0

I can't just be sat here and it was I was just in a really

1:32.0

damn mood and I think that's not like me even when

1:35.3

Liverpool are playing shit it was more that I didn't know what the purpose was I

1:39.0

didn't know what the outcome was going to be I didn't know if I should feel something. I just felt really deflated.

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