Neil Atkinson

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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]

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]

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