Rival Recon returns ahead of a new PL season with Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool as your Champions.
To lend us his insight on the journey Leeds Utd have been on and the transformative appointment of Marcelo Bielsa, Hari Sethi welcomes on freelance football writer, editor & podcaster, Jon Mackenzie, from @AllStatsArentWe
Leeds transformation under Bielsa
How will Leeds approach life back in the PL?
What will Bielsa vs Klopp look like this Saturday?
All this & more on #RivalRecon
Gags Tandon is joined by the A-Team: Simon Brundish, Dan Rhodes and Dan Kennett as they look ahead to the 2020/21 season and Liverpool look to retain the Premier League title.
They look at:
- Liverpool's medium and long term performance in the league
- Discuss the drop off last season
- Discuss the squad strength and any concerns
- Predict goal involvements for the forwards and full backs
- Look at the rivals
- Predict Liverpool's points total and whether they will retain the title.
All this and more on the Under Pressure Podcast
Dave & Karl are looking ahead to the upcoming Premier League season, they go through the business of some teams. Then pick out Champions League positions & relegated threatened teams, also who's winning.
Jim Boardman invites Anfield Index legend Nina Kauser onto the show this week, to find out how she became a Liverpool fan despite living at the “wrong” end of the East Lancs Road in Manchester, and how she made the journey into becoming presenter of her own regular show, one of the most popular on Anfield Index. Also, Nina has to pick her all-time LFC XI, will there be any surprises?
Mark Moraghan narrates the fifth episode of League Of Our Own, topics include:
- It’s only Everton
- Exceptional Wijnaldum
- The psychic ability of Liverpool players
- The red arrows
- Jinxing the set-piece defending
- Gags’ pressing milestone
- Mane’s best-ever creativity
- We heart Eddie Howe
- The perfect clean sheet
- Trev challenged to a stat-off
- Superb Salzburg
- Liverpool sign a football player
- A potential golden era after Klopp signs a new deal
Guests include: Trev Downey, Dave Hendrick, Karl Matchett, Jim Boardman, Jan Molby, Dan Kennett, Dan Rhodes, Simon Brunish, Gags Tandon, Nina Kauser, Tom Middler, James Pearce & Eddie Gibbs
All this and more on League of Our Own!
On this episode of Money Talks, Trev Downey hosts as he discusses Liverpool's finances with Mo Chatra. A deep dive of where money comes in and where it's spent is covered (based on analysis of the club's 18/19 accounts), along with discussion of Liverpool's financial position for 2019/20 and the forthcoming season, whether the club is operating a 'sell to buy policy' and why, how and why other clubs appear to be operating differently in the transfer market and whether FSG's approach is the right one. Packed full of facts and information, this pod is well worth a listen.
Dave & Karl are back and this time they're looking at players who underperformed last season. They each have a few picks and discuss if they should be improving. This was also recorded just before the Community Shield so excuse the chat beforehand!
In this episode, Allen & Andrew discuss winning the title, the drop off towards the end of the season and weighing up maintaining the culture we have versus buying tons of new players!
All this and more on this episode of Mind-Field podcast.
In episode 3 Allen and Andrew discuss the aftermath of losing the Champions League Final to Real Madrid, and the viral video of Klopp clearly having a great time with his mates.
Mark Moraghan narrates the fourth episode of League Of Our Own, topics include:
- Liverpool now have a similar aura to Ferguson’s Manchester United teams
- The three worst players on the pitch versus Aston Villa
- Peevish, almost obsessed, comments by Pep Guardiola post-match
- A change in how the team performs every season
- Is Mane a diver?
- Fixing the farce of VAR
- The Champions League game nobody wanted
- The clean sheet situation
- Pep’s full-back spending spree
- Angelino ruined by Salah
- Poor old Martin Tyler having a tough time
- Henderson’s brilliant cross and Sadio’s poaching
- An iron grip on the most important match of the season
- Winning a league game against fourth-placed Manchester City
- What a time to be alive!
- Anfield’s greatest ever goal?
- Who makes the best brew?
- The perfect Klopp performance
- Fabinho man of the match
- How much are the midfielders contributing?
- Five years of Desi
- Imagine being Duncan Castles and Andy Gray
- Brexit bingo and the Mitchell brothers on Match of the Day
Guests include Trev Downey, Karl Matchett, Dave Hendrick, Gags Tandon, Simon Brundish, Dan Kennett, Nina Kauser, Jonathan Norcroft, Jan Molby, Dan Rhodes, Eddie Gibbs, Guy Drinkel, James Pearce, Neil Jones, Harinder & Mo Chatra.
All this and more on League of Our Own!
Jim Boardman and Karl Coppack return to talk about Karl’s earliest memories of becoming a Red and if there was ever a chance he might have been drawn to the “wrong” side of Stanley Park. Also, Karl discusses what it’s like supporting Liverpool far from home, before deciding who has to be left out as he names his all-time LFC XI.
