Neil Atkinson

Liverpool

Presenter and CEO at The Anfield Wrap

Presenter and CEO of @theanfieldwrap.

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Leicester City 0 Liverpool 1: Match Review

6 days ago | theanfieldwrap.com | Neil Atkinson

Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Leicester City 0 Liverpool 1 in the 2024-2025 Premier League season…BY the end, I never wanted to leave. Wanted it again and again. Would give everything to go back to half past four and start again from scratch. The end wasn’t the final whistle. It was 10 minutes after, 15 minutes after. Walking out I saw a man sat in our end, head in his hands, beaming smile, in tears. He didn’t want it to stop and neither did I.
Liverpool 2 West Ham United 1: Match Review

1 week ago | theanfieldwrap.com | Neil Atkinson

Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 2 West Ham United 1 in the 2024-2025 Premier League season…ALL season, the line has been they have got what they deserve. And in a way, today, they did. They deserved to score two goals first half. They deserved to be pinned back second half, and then in the five minutes that followed the equaliser they deserved to score. But good God, were they poor second half until they concede. I have no real idea why. Did West Ham raise it?
Fulham 3 Liverpool 2: Match Review

2 weeks ago | theanfieldwrap.com | Neil Atkinson

Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Fulham 3 Liverpool 2 in the 2024-2025 Premier League season…THIS season, Liverpool have done very, very well at getting what they deserve. Is that true of today’s defeat? On balance, it is hard to argue that Fulham didn’t get what they deserve from the game. When the chances were there to be taken, they took them.
Liverpool 1 Everton 0: Match Review

3 weeks ago | theanfieldwrap.com | Neil Atkinson

Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 1 Everton 0 in the 2024-2025 Premier League season…TWELVE clear, 24 left to be won. It was a battle, a scrap and it was dreadfully officiated. Christ, that was stressful. Christ, that was good. Good god, did we need that. As You’ll Never Walk Alone belted out at Anfield, we needed to win this game against Everton. Curtis Jones is beaming like a Cheshire cat at the end.
The IEA goes from net zero to ground zero

1 month ago | pemedianetwork.com | Neil Atkinson

Thinktank the National Centre for Energy Analytics recently analysed how and why the IEA is heading in the wrong direction with regard to energy scenarios. The paper, titled Energy Delusions: Peak Oil Forecasts: A Critique of Oil “Scenarios” in the IEA World Energy Outlook 2024, explained how wishful thinking had become the organisation’s primary directive. For decades, the IEA was the world’s gold standard for both energy information and credible analysis.
Liverpool 1 Newcastle United 2: Match Review

1 month ago | theanfieldwrap.com | Neil Atkinson

Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 1 Newcastle United 2 in the 2024-2025 League Cup final at Wembley…EVERYBODY got what they deserved. Liverpool have perpetrated some heists in our time. Arsenal in 2001. Cardiff in 2012. Obviously Istanbul, but is it a heist if magic is involved? They’ve had some heists perpetrated on them. Athens ‘07. United ‘77. Madrid in ‘22, though is it a heist if the game happens in a different dimension to the fans?
Liverpool 0 PSG 1: Match Review

1 month ago | theanfieldwrap.com | Neil Atkinson

Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 0 PSG 1 in the 2024-2025 Champions League last 16…FINE margins. Hard lines. All the hits. But Liverpool play five sessions of football and are only unequivocally the better side in one session; the second half today. Now theoretically that could be enough. By virtue of this game of ours being a low scoring one, that could prove to be enough. Today it doesn’t. There is a thing where Liverpool start well. We’re the better side.
Liverpool 3 Southampton 1: Match Review

1 month ago | theanfieldwrap.com | Neil Atkinson

Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 3 Southampton 1 in the 2024-2025 Premier League season…SIXTEEN clear. Sixteen is loads. But 16 could be seven when we kick off against Everton if Arsenal get their act together. Hence why the scoreline at half time needed to be addressed urgently, because suddenly that could have been four and I had no interest in looking at David Moyes’s face in that context.
PSG 0 Liverpool 1: Match Review

1 month ago | theanfieldwrap.com | Neil Atkinson

Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after PSG 0 Liverpool 1 in the 2024-2025 Champions League last 16…WHERE do you start? A million places to choose from. You can start with a club who has Europe’d a thousands ways down the years. You could go with the goalkeeper who yet again demonstrated he is the best one. You could talk about the clean sheet, the classic European approach dealing with the modern era.
Liverpool 2 Newcastle United 0: Match Review

1 month ago | theanfieldwrap.com | Neil Atkinson

Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 2 Newcastle United 0 in the 2024-2025 Premier League season…SUNDAY wasn’t so much about dreaming of the Promised Land as looking at it while the plane descends. Today is about getting off the plane and getting to passport control of the Promised Land. Standing in the queue. Excited, so excited about this holiday there with your mates. Let me tell you, it’s hot and sunny in the Promised Land. Promise.