by Steve Graves | Aug 14, 2012 | Footie
Right, this is pretty self-explanatory. Some of TAW’s finest plus a couple of special guests have done us some predictions for the season ahead. Some are sensible. Some aren’t. Some are outrageous hostages to fortune. You’ll disagree. Add your own in...
by Steve Graves | Jul 23, 2012 | Footie
Problems. Jay-Z dealt with his by emphasising the positive. He’s a glass half-full kind of guy. Notorious B.I.G. was more downbeat, seeing the kind of causal link between the accumulation of capital and the emergence of personal challenges with which Rosie Redknapp,...
by Steve Graves | Jul 16, 2012 | Footie
It’s become the fashion, whenever we’re confronted by an extraordinary sporting moment or talent, to grant it the title of ‘best ever’. Almost yearly, it seems, we are told a player or team or match is the greatest in history, unparalleled, unique. This summer the...
by Steve Graves | Jul 6, 2012 | Footie
The Euros are over, the fixture list’s out and Brendan Rodgers has finally had chance to meet a few of the players. There’s no denying we’re now firmly in pre- rather than post-season. Football matches, proper serious football matches, are fast approaching. We have a...
by Steve Graves | Jun 19, 2012 | Footie
AS Euro 2012 prepares to move from all-you-can-eat buffet to its haute cuisine phase, the top table has a somewhat lopsided look about it. A system which places host nations – two host nations – among the top seeds is always likely to skew proceedings, and...
by Steve Graves | Jun 11, 2012 | Footie
CAVEATS are a right pain. Normally you squirrel them away somewhere in a piece, after you’ve said the stuff you mean and before you try and wrap it all up with some kind of smart/meaningful/at-least-conclusive line. I can’t be doing with them, generally. They’re the...
by Steve Graves | Jun 6, 2012 | Footie
THEY’RE among the more mysterious contenders for the Euros, seemingly as likely to have a run to the semis as they are to crash out without a single goal to their names. With just a few days until the Croats kick off their campaign against Ireland, take a look...
by Steve Graves | Jun 4, 2012 | Footie
IN A world where ‘great’ goals are scored week in week out by every Tom, Dick and Crouchy, it’s time to reclaim the term. A great goal – a truly, truly great goal – must always be a sum of parts, a collection of moments. It needs setup and...
by Steve Graves | May 24, 2012 | Footie
A week may be a long time in politics, but at Liverpool FC it feels like a geological age. Can it really only be seven days since Kenny Dalglish was dismissed? Somehow the sheer volume of rumours, counter-rumours, outright lies and wild stabs in the dark seem to have...
by Steve Graves | May 16, 2012 | Footie
If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly. As well as offering a rare chance to put my degree to some use, the above quote from Macbeth has summed up my recent feelings on Kenny Dalglish’s future at Liverpool pretty neatly. If...
