FOUR years ago today, after a 1-1 with Everton at Goodison Park, Brendan Rodgers received a phone call on his way home and was told that was that. After 166 games in charge across three years on Merseyside, his time at Anfield was over. The men who backed him sacked...
IS there a danger, however small, that we may be becoming spoiled watching this incessant winning machine week in, week out? It was a question some dared to air over a post-match pint on Saturday afternoon. In Sheffield, the travelling support from Liverpool wasn’t at...
THE City of Sheffield and the badge of South Yorkshire Police will always stir certain emotions among many Liverpool supporters. You know why. And as further comment runs a risk of contempt of court around the retrial next week of Chief Superintendent David...
XABI Alonso, a man who brought grace and elegance to the Anfield turf, once said: “I don’t think tackling is a quality. Tackling is a last resort, and you will need it, but it isn’t a quality to aspire to.” Who didn’t enjoy the classy midfielder at...
A FOOTBALL club is, ultimately, the bricks, mortar and steel of the ground. The grass of the pitch. The seats in the stand. And yet, of course, it’s so much more than that. The real beauty is what it all means to us. And different clubs and different grounds mean...
WITH Newcastle United due at Anfield tomorrow – and the name Gillett linked to the ownership of an English football club once more – memories of the all-too-recent darker ownership days at Liverpool came flooding back this week. Take your pick from the lowlights, from...
LIVERPOOL top of the league. Unbeaten, unruffled, a fresh new trophy in the club cabinet, the ground buzzing, the positives flowing, the routine back and the weekends filled once more. And then you go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like, “international...
TO the more experienced Liverpool supporter there remains a level of bemusement about Manchester City and their current football swagger. As much as they try to walk the walk – and both team and manager are quite clearly among the best – the whole ‘we belong among the...
THERE’S a certain irony that on the same weekend Liverpool take on Arsenal at Anfield, one plan for an extension of the famous old ground is hopefully abandoned for another. Arsenal, of course, ditched their traditional home of 93 years – Highbury – for...
IT’S good to have it all back. Good to be in the midst of it all once again. After the ever-shorter post-season breather, last Friday, a familiar pilgrimage was made. To Anfield. To Liverpool FC. The pub was full of smiles. The Kop was full of flags. And just before...
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…
