ELEVEN Reds for 11 seasons… Jamie Carragher has spent the last few weeks compiling various starting XIs based on such varied criteria as nationality, an NFL-style draft and even a combined team of the Soccer Aid players. I never thought I’d see Woody Harrelson...
BOXING Day football is a staple of every English season. Your guts may be stuffed to overflowing and your head might be a bit fuzzy or throbbing, but the Boxing Day programme will usually sort all that out. It’s even better if we’re at home. You simply stumble to the...
LAST week I was stood queuing outside my local Sainsbury’s being all socially responsible. I tried gamely not to be one of those people who frowns when someone moves a centimetre inside their exclusion zones. I failed. My best Steven Gerrard withering look was...
THERE’S a time when football runs along the same lines of the spirit of the nation. Take 1966. The war was over, rationing had ended, The Beatles ruled the world and England were World Champions. Equally, Britpop coincided with Euro 96 – one of the more...
DO people believe that a computer arranges the fixture list? I’ve always wanted to think that it really is a random collection of games thrown together, but I don’t know. It just doesn’t seem random enough. I mean, how come we don’t play, say, Burnley at home on the...
NOTHING affects a season more than a change of manager. As the 2014-15 season ended, everything was in a state of flux. Brendan Rodgers, a hero just 12 short months earlier, had admitted that calls for his head were justified. The club had squandered their share of...
WRITE about your favourite ever player, he said. The one you always wanted to be as a kid in the playground or admired the most. Who’s yours? That’s not always an easy question. I mean, there’s your favourite and there’s the best. My hero lined up in the same side as...
IT seems strange to talk about my first game when I’ve no idea when the next one is, but these are strange days indeed. I’m not used to no football. I don’t suppose any of us are. And it’s not as if you can go and see a lower league game or even a kickabout in the...
“ANFIELD is a great stadium that is filled with great fans, but it is also very old. “If Anfield had to pass a technical inspection from UEFA, it would not be able to do so to save it’s life.” – Enrique Cerezo, President of Atletico Madrid. Cheers mate....
“1990 is the time for the Guru.” YOU may have allowed Guru Josh, a Jersey born musician called Paul Walden, to slip from your memory, but in late 1989 that was his message to the world. That mantra came in his hit Infinity and, credit where it’s due, it...
Liverpool 2024/25 Season Awards: TAW Midweek Extra
As it’s awards season Midweek Extra this week has our panel discussing their highlights of the season, including moment of the season and player of the season before debuting an masterclass of a tribute to Ryan Gravenberch courtesy of Mo Stewart.
John Gibbons is joined by Jimmy Carr, Mo Stewart and Kev Reilly.
Also in the show John Gibbons chats to author Keith Salmon about his book ‘There’s Something that the Kop wants you to know’.