IT was a big weekend on Merseyside. The Giants from the French arts company Royal de Luxe were drawing the crowds in the city centre of Liverpool, while two giants of the Premier League were ready to clash at Anfield. The hostile welcome Manchester City were expecting...
IT HARDLY counts as all that perceptive to point out that there are elements of fickleness when it comes to football analysis. Indeed, as someone who writes a weekly article about one football team, I am reliant on a certain fickleness to continue to produce talking...
IT was raised by many heading into the season as a reason to back Liverpool to do well. Thanks partly to the inspired movements in the transfer market and the careful management of the squad by Jürgen Klopp, all of a sudden The Reds have gone from having a starting 11...
IT is the return of the UEFA Champions League. All the exciting nights, big games and Gazprom you can consume. What a ride it was last time out. Sure, the ending in Kyiv wasn’t ideal, but personally I wouldn’t swap those experiences with any other set of fans (apart...
IT has been a terrific start to the season for Liverpool. With so much hype and hope in pre season, it was vital that Jürgen Klopp’s tricky Reds got off to a flyer, and they did just that with four wins out of four in the opening month of the campaign. However,...
IT is an oft-used analogy when a football team is not quite playing up to their usual standard that they are in “first gear”, or “have the handbrake on”, or even “are driving with one thumb on the wheel and the other thumb up their arse”. That last one may have only...
WE live in a society these days that doesn’t like to admit when it’s wrong. Doubling down is the aim of the game, whether it’s in politics, football management or on social media, it seems the modern person more often than not has their side and will stick to it, no...
LIVERPOOL’S win at Crystal Palace last night felt significant. Not because of the weird narrative that Sky Sports wanted to peddle. They tweeted before the game “Can @LFC exact their revenge?” referring to the infamous 3-3 between the two teams at Selhurst Park...
“MILNER’S a phenomenon, a guy with big balls…” That was Manuel Pellegrini back in March 2015, quite literally talking bollocks. Three years and five months later, the Chilean was reminded of just how big James Milner’s are. Significantly more so than Jack...
HIS face is everywhere. On billboards across the world, on the side of planes, even in Times Square in New York City. Mo Salah is a world-renowned superstar. Twelve months ago, to many outside of Egypt and Rome, he was still that Chelsea reject who cost too much and...
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.
