PERCEPTION is an intriguing concept in football. The perception of our modern-day footballers can gain influence both directly and unconsciously through the things we absorb from the plethora of content we consume daily. Gone are the days when your only football-based...
THAT win should not be underestimated at any cost. The thought of going to Burnley in two days absolutely needing something was enough to put you off the idea of seeing in a New Year altogether. But The Reds shook off an early setback, displaying tons of character, to...
SAY what you like about Rio Ferdinand, his links across the M62 and that gut wrenching, injury-time winner against Liverpool at Old Trafford in 2006 (of which I still hold Djibril Cisse more to account then anybody else), but I thought he was a fine centre-back....
LIVERPOOL buried a ghost this afternoon on the south coast. A big Toxic Thunder-splashed ghost of Christmas past was well and truly consigned along with the memory of Ryan Fraser embodying a combination of Lionel Messi and David Fairclough at the mere sight of a...
AROUND two years ago, me and some friends started a Whatsapp group titled “The Random Song Group”. The concept was simple enough; If you were listening to a song, any song, and you wanted to share it with everybody else, you would take a snapshot of it and add it to...
EVERY game I’m watching him, glancing over at him with some adolescent yearning for approval. Every time the collective angst in Anfield rises through a slightly sideways Jordan Henderson pass or a Simon Mignolet lob-wedged attempt at a clearance, I find myself...
IN the midst of last Saturday’s draw with Manchester United, while Ashley Young was doing his utmost to prevent Liverpool gaining any kind of momentum, my gaze became fixed on another player. The lovely autumn sun and the vibrancy of the green Anfield turf left me...
IN the week of Gerard Houllier’s 70th birthday, it would have been delinquent of me not to indulge in the nostalgia of my coming of age as a Liverpool supporter. As an impressionable 14-year-old with a yearning for identity and realisation of values, the education...
“LET it not be said that achievement is no less rewarding without the material gratification of a tangible reward.” It’s alright that, isn’t it? I’ve just made it up. Nevertheless, I hope it stirred up some form of resonance with you, until you realised it was as far...
DANIEL Sturridge is injured, again. He is reported to be out for an unknown period of time, again. He is likely to be absent for the remainder of a crucial period for Liverpool Football Club when they could really do with having him fit and firing, again. All of the...
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.