THIS is it. I’m not going to lie to you. I’m a bag of nerves. But this is it. This is the next thing. TAW Player. For the last 12 months I’ve been frustrated. Too many talking points. Not enough time. Too many guests. Not enough time. Too much...
GREAT games. To be involved in great games is a marvellous thing. Only good teams tend to get themselves in great games. Liverpool have been involved in two great games against Chelsea and one against Spurs recently. This, the fourth, is arguably the greatest and...
LAST week, when we decided to do player ratings, John said: “Do you want to do Besiktas at home as the first one?” And I said “Well, as you’ll do most of them, you do the first one and set the tone. So hang on for Southampton.” The tone he set was dead funny....
ON one of our shows recently, after the Crystal Palace cup game, Steve Graves said that Joe Allen ‘couldn’t Joe Allen himself out of being lightly thought of by many at Anfield’. If Mignolet or Balotelli have a run of nine out of 10 games there will...
WALKING around the ground in the teeming rain, the absolute teeming fucking rain, after the game there was this enormous buzz of the Red support leaving the ground, songs echoing around, smiles wide. The Reds are coming up the hill, clambering up, dust smeared faces,...
THOSE lads celebrating the final whistle in front of an exultant Kop. Those lads — chests stuck out, saluting each others indefatigability. Those lads learning how to win together. I love those lads. Liverpool decided, as teams sometimes do, that they were going...
WALKED in. Told emphatically how I stink of booze. That said the Reggie Watts number from 45:33 reimagined for LCD Soundsystem’s last ever gig was playing. Swings and roundabouts therefore. If that could soundtrack almost everything I ever do that would be...
AND suddenly Liverpool look rampant. Ish. For five minutes. But it is enough. Play well for five minutes a half against a ton of these sides, you win. This is especially true if you have an actual centre forward. An actual centre forward. Walk around him. In fact...
Well I’m not really worried about this But can some one please answer me this Apart from on commentary Where else on earth Can you hear the word ‘aplomb’ being used? – Half Man Half Biscuit, Keeping Two Chevrons Apart. TWO strikers spearheaded Liverpool’s...
TWO nil. Rickie Lambert. And the Travelling Reds are in rapture. It is going bananas, a rush to the front. Pulled up a row. Back down a row. Look up, see a red face going mental. It looks like Lucas Leiva.It is. It is Lucas Leiva. He, and half the Liverpool side are...
With Manchester City on the very near horizon and the number of games in the season fast running out, Liverpool enter a run of fixtures that could make or break their aim of automatic qualification for next seasons Champions League.
Rob Gutmann hosts Adam Melia, Joel Penny and Ian Salmon…
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