Foreword by Grant Wahl
Introduction by Neil Atkinson
August 2019
September 2019
October 2019
November 2019
December 2019
January 2020
February 2020
March 2020
April 2020
May 2020
June 2020
July 2020
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Michael MacCambridge is the author of several books,
including ’69 Chiefs: A Team, a Season, and the Birth of Modern
Kansas City and America’s Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football
Captured a Nation. Neil Atkinson is a Liverpool-based
writer, broadcaster, and film producer. He is the host of and one
of the main writers behind the website and podcast The Anfield
Wrap. Grant Wahl is a leading soccer journalist and
best-selling author of Masters of Modern Soccer: How the World’s
Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game.
“Passionate and perceptive, contemplative and comprehensive,
MacCambridge and Atkinson take you on a journey like no other
through a season like no other, as hope and excitement give way to
frustration and fear. What stands out, though, is not the agony and
ecstasy of Liverpool’s title win but the warmth and the wit of
the authors as the world changes around them and their
team.”—Rory Smith, chief soccer correspondent for the New York
Times
“If you care about a club such that your life pulses with the
ecstasy and agonies of their fortunes, you’ll devour what Michael
MacCambridge and Neil Atkinson have created. Their brilliantly
observational correspondence chronicles a season unlike any other,
when their beloved Liverpool ended a dark passage of
underachievement by dominating the world’s best league, even as the
planet was stricken by the plague of COVID-19. Grounded in their
obsession in their side’s historic season, through months of global
uncertainty, their conversations are a compelling window onto their
shared passion and the questions beyond the pitch they so
accurately frame.”—Bob Ley, longtime anchor for ESPN’s Outside
the Lines
“MacCambridge and Atkinson have revived two dying
arts—letter-writing and male friendship—in this literal
back-and-forth that feels like eavesdropping on two engaging
strangers down at the pub. It evoked for me Nick Hornby’s Fever
Pitch, Frederick Exley’s A Fan’s Notes, and (given the historic
year it chronicles on the pitch and in the world) their biblical
First Letter to the Liverpudlians.”—Steve Rushin, author of
Sting-Ray Afternoons and Nights in White Castle
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