Episode 925: The Anfield Wrap, Success Without Winning, Cutting Coutinho, Love Hate, Klopp V Jose

We are joined today in studio by Neil Atkinson and John Gibbons from the Anfield Wrap, the hugely successful and multi-award-winning Liverpool podcasters who are over in Dublin to do a live show ahead of Liverpool’s match against Athletic Bilbao at Lansdowne Road.

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We talk a lot of Liverpool FC but also a lot of general football. Can a season still be successful if you don’t win anything? Is football less draining if your team feels like it’s having fun? For a football crowd, which emotion is more important: love or hate, and just how good was Anfield in the good old days?

The Kop, Anfield, during a Liverpool vs Arsenal game, 1964. pic.twitter.com/HqvYBrjNF5

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Plus there’s Klopp’s positivity and Jose’s negativity, the powerlessness of cash, what’s real and what’s fake when it comes to football tournaments, and the Hoffenheim threat.

Liverpool drawn against Hoffenheim in Champions League playoff https://t.co/JFZ4gjefZO

— Irish Times Sport (@IrishTimesSport) August 4, 2017

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