Neil Atkinson

Neil Atkinson (born 21 January 1981) is a Liverpool based writer, broadcaster and film producer.[1][2] Atkinson is the host,[3] ‘Content Manager’,[4] and one of the main writers and business developers[5] behind online football and culture magazine The Anfield Wrap[6] which has had over 28 million podcast downloads worldwide. Atkinson has presented sell out shows of The Anfield Wrap in London, New York, Melbourne, Ireland and Scandinavia as well as on stage at the Sound City Festival in Liverpool.[7][8][9][10]

Atkinson co-wrote and co-produced[11] the film Native which had a theatrical release in the UK in 2018 and won the feature film award at the 2016 Boston science fiction festival.[12] Described as ‘smart’ and ‘elegant’ by Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian.[13] Kim Newman in Empire magazine described it as ‘ambitious, unusual and thought-provoking’.[14] In The Times Ed Potton a “script full of promise, with provocative things to say about empathy, obedience and individualism”.[15]

Atkinson is a regular Radio City Talk presenter and won the Football Supporters Federation 2016 national radio show award.[16] He runs his own Liverpool-based production company, Film1st, and hosts music podcast The Rider.[17] Atkinson has guested as a pundit on The Totally Football Show discussing Liverpool Football Club’s 2019-20 Premier League title triumph.[18]

Formerly a chairman for Spirit of Shankly,[19] he has contributed to The New Statesmen discussing the social impact of tragedies[20][21] and has appeared on BBC Breakfast,[22] Football Focus,[23] and BBC Five Live,[24][25][26][27] BT Sport[28] Copa90[29] and Sky Sports, during which former Manchester United defender Gary Neville described Atkinson as “a better pundit than me”.[30]

Atkinson has written for newspapers such as newspapers such as The Guardian,[31] The Independent,[32] the Birmingham Mail,[33] the Liverpool Echo,[34] the North Wales Daily Post,[35] the Newcastle Chronicle,[36] The Straits Times,[37] and The Daily Star. [38] Atkinson reviewed a concert of Elgar, Mahler and Strauss by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra which was highlighted by Classic FM.[39]

He co-wrote the 2014 book Make Us Dream with John Gibbons about the 2013-14 Liverpool F.C. season[40] as well as Numero 6 in 2019, about Liverpool’s 2018–19 season culminating in their 2019 UEFA Champions League Final victory, their sixth European Cup triumph.[41] In August 2019 with Michael MacCambridge Atkinson began Red Letters, a weekly correspondence about the Liverpool Football Club for the Liverpool Echo’s American website, which is being edited into a book.[42]

References
  1. "Nerdly » East London Film Festival: European Premiere of British sci-fi 'Native'". www.nerdly.co.uk.
  2. Conor McNamara (7 December 2015). "Neil Atkinson acceptance speech at The FSF Awards" – via YouTube.
  3. "Contributors – The Anfield Wrap".
  4. "This UK podcast is making money – and employs 4 people". 11 March 2016.
  5. Development, PodBean. "Walks Of Life Podcast".
  6. "About The Anfield Wrap – The Anfield Wrap".
  8. "TAW DOWN UNDER – The Anfield Wrap". 11 April 2013.
  9. "THE ANFIELD WRAP DOWN UNDER – NEW DATES ADDED – The Anfield Wrap". 19 June 2013.
  10. "Anfield Wrap stage set for Sound City". jmu-journalism.org.uk.
  11. "Neil Atkinson". IMDb.
  12. "Native (2016)".
  13. Bradshaw, Peter (22 February 2018). "Native review – an elegant and weird sci-fi adventure". the Guardian.
  14. Newman, Kim (23 February 2018). "Native". Empire.
  15. Potton, Ed (23 February 2018). "Film review: Native" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  16. http://www.fsf.org.uk/. "Philippe Coutinho wins FSF Player of the Year Award – Football Supporters' Federation". www.fsf.org.uk. Archived from the original on 30 August 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  17. "Kin – Neil Atkinson".
  18. https://audioboom.com/posts/7616779-and-now-it-s-there
  19. "From Liverpool to Dubai: How The Anfield Wrap became a global success story – FourFourTwo Arabia". www.fourfourtwoarabia.com.
  20. "29 years on from the Hillsborough disaster, Grenfell shows how little we've learnt". www.newstatesman.com.
  21. "The Hillsborough verdict isn't about football – the disaster was a national disgrace". www.newstatesman.com.
  22. Atkinson, Neil (24 May 2018). "On BBC Breakfast at 8.30am UK time. Currently trying to build a phone platform".
  23. Atkinson, Neil (3 October 2018). "About to do something for Football Focus which is exciting".
  24. "Liverpool fans' views of Roma trip in Champions League". BBC Sport. 2 May 2018.
  25. "Champions League final: Liverpool v Real Madrid resale ticket prices 'ridiculous'". BBC Sport. 21 May 2018.
  26. "'We're on a coach to Kiev but our driver has to leave in Poland', 5 live's Football Daily – BBC Radio 5 live". BBC.
  27. "Allez! Allez! Allez! From Liverpool to Kiev – a fans preview, 5 live's Football Daily – BBC Radio 5 live". BBC.
  29. COPA90 US (24 May 2018). "Bow Down to the Mighty Liverpool – Champions League Final Chat with The Anfield Wrap" – via YouTube.
  30. Wrap, The Anfield (21 December 2018). ""I've kidded myself for years that we can win the league, this time we actually can." Pre-match with @Carra23 and @GNev2".
  31. Atkinson, Neil (14 April 2016). "Why is the Saturday 3pm kick-off sacrosanct? It's a rubbish time for football". the Guardian.
  32. "I was a fan at Liverpool vs Atlético Madrid and feel badly let down". 22 April 2020.
  33. Brown, Graeme (31 January 2018). "If you can keep him fit, he is better than Harry Kane".
  34. Jones, Neil (31 May 2017). "Why Liverpool need to 'be very Alex Ferguson' this summer".
  35. Jones, Neil (7 January 2018). "Liverpool FC 2-1 Everton FC: What the papers said".
  36. Waugh, Chris (1 March 2018). "The story behind Rafa's LFC love affair – and what he craves at NUFC".
  37. hermesauto (3 May 2018). "Football: Mohamed Salah is breaking down cultural barriers, one goal at a time".
  38. Evans, Tom (23 May 2018). "Real Madrid's weakness EXPOSED: Pundit reveals how Liverpool can win Champions League". Dailystar.co.uk.
  39. "Liverpool football magazine prints review of RLPO concert". Classic FM.
  40. Prentice, David (15 August 2014). "Make Us Dream book review: story of Liverpool's 2013/14 season".
  41. "Avalanche of f-words take away from all that's good in fans' site, The Anfield Wrap – Sports Journalists' Association".
  42. Atkinson, Neil and MacCambridge, Michael (2 August 2019). "RED LETTERS/2 AUGUST 2019: MADRID AFTERGLOW, GOING AGAIN AND CARPOOLING WITH GARY GILLESPIE". Liverpool Echo.
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