IN a game which felt like a throwback to a decade ago, what a contest between two very modern football teams. Back in those days it was Rafa Benitez and Jose Mourinho locked in enthralling tactical battles, with players of supreme quality all over the pitch. Chelsea...
THESE are the European nights they always talked about. Those nights where Anfield rose as The Reds downed Europe’s big boys. Chelsea and Juventus in 2005, Saint Etienne in ’77. Jürgen Klopp and his charges are creating their own. Writing their own...
WHO can stop these Reds? It feels as though every weakness that used to be levelled at this Liverpool side has been corrected, and that Jürgen Klopp has been constantly learning during his tenure. In his first full season at the club, The Reds struggled against the...
WATCHING it in the ground is hard, you know. There’s a reason I’m starting by saying that. For one, you simultaneously feel the pressure a lot more and also a lot less. Liverpool were under the cosh for the last 20 against Leicester City, at the very least. And yet...
STAFF shakeups seem to have become a regular occurrence since Jürgen Klopp took the reins at Liverpool. The German brought trusted sidekicks Zeljko Buvac and Peter Krawietz with him from Borussia Dortmund — putting paid to Sean O’Driscoll’s time as assistant,...
WHEN you can’t get the goal difference, settle for winning every game and never conceding again. Brighton seemed to have learned their lesson from last season and were well drilled to plug gaps and kick everybody in a red shirt on sight. Fair play to them, it...
THE Reds are top of the league. The wriggly arms are back. What a time to be alive. Liverpool didn’t need to get out of first gear to finish off a West Ham side who were there for the taking, and even a convincing 4-0 flattered The Hammers in the end. In truth,...
“IT’S always this little plus if they come from Liverpool. “If I have two players, same quality, but one speaks proper English and the other one speaks Scouse, the Scouser is in! “That’s why we are Liverpool.” It’s a small statement from Jürgen...
IT feels like a good time to be a Liverpool supporter. The club have established themselves as serious players in the transfer market, are showing a growing appreciation of Liverpool fan culture and the team remain one of the Premier League’s most entertaining sides...
IT’S around this time of year that Liverpool Football Club “members” have to endure hours of queues and early mornings filled with inconvenience to try and buy tickets to go and watch The Reds play. In the act of trying to pay the club a lot of money to go and form...
The third episode of season one of The Pub Crawlers Podcast was recorded in Nottingham, as Rob Gutmann hosts Steve Graves and Martin Fitzgerald to discuss the local pub scene, Indian restaurants, students, 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…
