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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] and Liverpool’s 5-0 win at Old Trafford over Manchester United on 24 October 2021.[19]

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

He co-wrote the 2014 book Make Us Dream with John Gibbons about the 2013-14 Liverpool F.C. season[24] 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.[25] 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.[26]
Atkinson has also written for newspapers such as newspapers such as The Guardian, The Independent the Liverpool Echo on Liverpool FC related topics.[citation needed]

References[edit]

  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”.
  7. ^ [1][dead link]
  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. 22 March 2013.
  11. ^ “Neil Atkinson”. IMDb.
  12. ^ “Native (2016)”. IMDb.
  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. ^ “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. ^ “And now it’s there”.
  19. ^ “The Totally Football Show with James Richardson: Three handles on Apple Podcasts”.
  20. ^ “From Liverpool to Dubai: How The Anfield Wrap became a global success story – FourFourTwo Arabia”. www.fourfourtwoarabia.com.
  21. ^ “29 years on from the Hillsborough disaster, Grenfell shows how little we’ve learnt”. www.newstatesman.com. 9 June 2021.
  22. ^ “The Hillsborough verdict isn’t about football – the disaster was a national disgrace”. www.newstatesman.com. 26 April 2016.
  23. ^ 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″.
  24. ^ Prentice, David (15 August 2014). “Make Us Dream book review: story of Liverpool’s 2013/14 season”.
  25. ^ “Avalanche of f-words take away from all that’s good in fans’ site, The Anfield Wrap – Sports Journalists’ Association”. 16 August 2019.
  26. ^ Atkinson, Neil and MacCambridge, Michael (2 August 2019). “RED LETTERS/2 AUGUST 2019: MADRID AFTERGLOW, GOING AGAIN AND CARPOOLING WITH GARY GILLESPIE”. Liverpool Echo.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)


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