THERE was so much talk going into this game. So much talk that it almost felt like the buildup to this Champions League quarter final first leg against Manchester City wouldn’t live up to its own hype. Champions League first legs can be drab affairs, focus laid...
THERE are fewer things in football that better the sight of a local lad pulling on the colours of his hometown club. Liverpool are lucky enough to have been blessed by some pretty special scousers down the years. Lads who, no matter how much their reputation grows,...
THE 200th meeting between Liverpool and Manchester United was a huge step towards deciding who would be “best of the rest” in the Premier League. A win for The Reds would have put them a point ahead of their north-west rivals, but it was Jose Mourinho’s side who came...
“THERE’S only two things for a full back; you’re either a failed winger or a failed centre back. “No one wants to be a full back as a kid, no one wants to grow up and be a Gary Neville.” It’s hard to argue with the latter part of that statement made by Jamie...
OCTOBER 1, 1995. Manchester United 1 Liverpool 1. Michael Thomas picks up the ball inside his own half. He plays a weighted through ball on the outside of Gary Neville. Neville chases but Robbie Fowler comes on the inside and shrugs him off. Fowler looks up at the...
“HE’S been the most professional person I’ve seen all season. “He’s been top quality from the start and every time he gets on the pitch he does his all for the club and that’s the most important thing right now. “It’s not fair to ask those kind of questions I don’t...
IT’S obviously been a disappointing week for Liverpool FC on the pitch. The Reds had the chance to gain valuable ground on their rivals and have twice failed to break down beatable teams who have come to Anfield with very little ambition to get anything from the game....
“WE keep repeating ourselves, the big tests are yet to come for Liverpool. Clearly they keep beating these so-called lesser teams, the same in the Premier League, but they’ve beaten nobody yet.” The words of failed manager, turned failing coach, turned punditry...
AHEAD of Liverpool’s final group game against Spartak Moscow, we spoke to John Bradley, Russian football expert and former LFCTV commentator, to get the latest on the Russian Premier League champions. Spartak Moscow have won nine, drawn seven and lost just three...
ANOTHER potential banana skin of an away game navigated excellently, though the overall performance today was much better than at Stoke. The Anfield Wrap’s newly-crowned king of ratings Ben Johnson is necking Lemsip with Joe Gomez to get fit for...
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…
