BIG deep breath… Are you ready? Here we go. A huge month of football awaits, one many have described as possibly season defining in its infancy for Liverpool. Yet this is indicative of the levels set by this season’s quest for domestic and European supremacy....
THERE are some players you just don’t worry about. From the minute they kick a ball for the club, they project an air of calmness, of reliability in many ways. There are many examples of players down the years who have emanated such an air of placidity. Yet for every...
IN a week where Liverpool’s impressive start on the pitch continued, they were dealt a levelling blow off it. Plans to expand the use of Anfield, for sports and music events to possibly be held at the stadium in future, were halted at a Liverpool Town Hall hearing....
I CAN’T wait to get back to Anfield. I can’t wait to watch Liverpool play football again. To see this team in the flesh again is a joy to behold. To get to do it another 20 or so times this season, while absorbing the waves of positivity around the place, is a...
ALL goalkeepers are mad. Let’s get that out of the way, first and foremost. They are all in some form absolutely insane and, in many ways, need to be for the occupation they have. A position which is the most isolated, in terms of a team game, ‘keepers by their...
“I LOVE the first day, man, everybody all friendly and shit.” Namond Brice in The Wire had it right. School is in as of this weekend and we all get to go back to an environment where fun and enjoyment is just as fundamental as the learning process we continue to go...
“IF you are in the relegation zone, then you are in a relegation battle” Good old Roy Hodgson, eh? The manager who will always provide a post-2010 barometer for where Liverpool Football Club once very recently stood; sullen and soaked in dark matter with the prospect...
THIS is it, then. The biggest week of our lives, the only thing in any room you’re ever in. I’ve thought about many ways to write this piece. But ultimately it has written itself, a shot from the hip aimed in the direction of Eastern Europe. Now that you’ve opened...
THERE are fewer long-standing social cliques in the city of Liverpool than those who are or have been allied in some form to the amateur football scene. Liverpool, in many ways, is a city which very much acts in the form of a community. There would be no night out...
COMPARISONS in football are commonplace. Every one of us are prone to making them from the minute we become wise enough to hold up any form of reference point as fans of the game. There are positives and negatives to making comparisons in football. As a Liverpool fan...
The Reds To Bring De Bruyne Home?: TAW Midweek Gutter Extra
With surprise reports linking soon to be ex-Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne with his boyhood club, Rob Gutmann is joined by John Gibbons, Josh Williams and Beth Lindop for a Midweek Extra Gutter Special to delve deeper into the reports as well as other transfer gossip concerning the Reds.
Also in the show John Gibbons chats to Professional Darts Player and Liverpool fan Stephen Bunting about the upcoming ‘Ladbrokes Anfield Open’ which is in aid of the LFC Foundation.
