THERE was something about that timing, wasn’t there? Just when we (me, and everyone I know anyway) needed a bit of lift from the despair of what has unfolded in the last 24 hours, up pops Big Jürgen; a knowing look on his face, a soft smile – like he wanted to give us...
AFTER the glory of lifting European Cup number six in Madrid in June – coupled with gathering a club-record 97 points in the Premier League – many predicted Liverpool would turn to the transfer market with the star shining so brightly. Use the position of strength as...
TO the uneducated eye it was just another late substitution to see out time. Gerard Houllier’s Liverpool were cruising to a 2-0 victory over Blackburn Rovers at Anfield, with Tony Parkes’ side firmly lodged at the bottom of the league having won only two of their 14...
FOR as long as I can remember, making Anfield bigger and better has been a recurring debate. When Liverpool are successful, the issue intensifies further. Those days when you could walk up, pay in, and watch the match are long gone. And tickets for the aways are like...
UNLESS you’ve been living in a wi-fi wilderness, you’ve probably noticed the fall out from Liverpool’s victory over Manchester City. Away from the piss-boiling of the VAR outrage, official complaints about the referee and Raheem Sterling’s meltdown, a question can be...
HERE we go again. A big game. A big night. Because let’s be honest, that’s what a 4.30pm kick off in November is. In the buildup to matches like these you can’t help but think back to those spine-tingling moments when the power of Anfield has been pumped up to the...
NOT everyone has the luxury of poring over hours of footage, watching all of the Premier League games every weekend and arriving at an informed conclusion at the end of it all. It’s why, even in the digital age of saturated coverage and information at our fingertips...
THE International Slavery Museum may not be the most obvious place to start a piece for a football website, but stick with it. I’d been to the museum at Liverpool’s Albert Dock before, but not for a long time. Recently, I went there with my children. The stories...
SINCE Liverpool last played a match, Trent Alexander-Arnold has celebrated another birthday. He turned 21 two days after the 2-1 victory over Leicester. It’s an age when elders traditionally handed over a key to the door. An age when it becomes legal to drink alcohol...
ONE of the endearing features of the classic film Back To The Future is that once Marty McFly has seen how things could unfold in an alternative reality, he’s more appreciative of what he’s got around him in the here and now. Jürgen Klopp’s four-year anniversary at...
The Pub Crawlers Podcast: Down The Local with Mo Stewart (S1E5)
The fifth episode of season one of The Pub Crawlers Podcast was recorded ‘Down The Local’ in Liverpool, as Rob Gutmann hosts Steve Graves and Mo Stewart to discuss worst pub toilet experiences, music in pubs, Glastonbury, and more…
The Pub Crawlers Podcast represents a quest to find the very best authentic UK pubs, filmed on location inside some of the finest boozers across the UK and Ireland.
Well, sort of. It’s equally about friends having three to four pint-fuelled, quintessential pub conversations, on any subjects that damn well occur to them, in a range of outstanding boozers across the land. So, really, it’s as much about what we get up to in pubs as the pubs themselves.
The shows are presented by self-styled boozer connoisseur and long-time pub designer and owner, Rob Gutmann, who is on a mission to find the very best pubs in the UK and to define the essence of the ‘true’ pub.
Featuring a wide range of guests (mainly Rob’s mates), we’ll be visiting pubs the length and breadth of the country, bedding into the very best of them, and chatting about our lives lived in and around boozers.
The first season of the Pub Crawlers focuses on the North of England, taking in Chester, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, and even a brief foray to the north side of the Midlands in Nottingham.
Plug yourself in to the ongoing conversation as it disappears down all manner of tenuously pub-related worm holes, with your new mates at TPC. And you don’t need a pint to enjoy us, but it might help…
