THINK of Liverpool v Arsenal and what’s the first match that springs to mind? Yeah, we’ll ignore that one. What else? Robbie Fowler’s 4-minute and 35-second hat-trick in 94? The treble he scored against them at Anfield just 16 months later? What...
LIVERPOOL have scored about a billion goals this season, winning by three, four, five. They’ve dug in, winning 1-0 at home when under the cosh. They’ve freaked out, winning 0-5 away from home with panache. They’ve been pegged back by half time and won with style....
Tomorrow we hit London in conjunction with HJC London Rocks. They are bringing John Power and The Tea Street Band. We are bringing Gareth Roberts. OK. There’s an imbalance there. There is no getting away from it. Let’s be honest: Robbo’s far more attractive than all...
This fiction is initially inspired by this tweet from Andy Burnham. And my own immediate response to it. ATKINSON – FOOTBALL FLATFOOT (2) [The first Chapter One of Atkinson – Football Flatfoot is available here] Chapter 1 – The Proposition Sticky Liverpool...
‘SATURDAY’ is a short-film by Mike Forshaw, a fictionalised account of how the Hillsborough stadium disaster unfolded for one family back home in Liverpool. I asked Mike about the project. Mike, what’s the essence of your story? SATURDAY is a short...
‘WALK ON – The Story of You’ll Never Walk Alone’ is a new film aiming to tell “the story of one song and its extraordinary power – from post war Broadway to LFC’s famous Kop.” We know the song, of course, but we wanted...
“FOUR hours! You think you can do four hours of speech radio?” Asked Steve Hothersall. Perfectly reasonably. The unspoken answer to that is that my life is 17 hours of speech radio interspersed with, at the very least, the attempt to sleep. My spoken answer was that...
PAUL COPE said to me: “Listened to your Melbourne podcast. And I just thought, yeah. We should enjoy it. It should be great. It used to be. We get to go and do this and all we do is act like it ruins our day whereas people’d kill to do this every week. Well let’s...
A bumper fifth edition (which I might regret if someone else sneaks some in) with offerings from Steve Davies, Gareth Roberts, Amy Lawrence, Rob Gutmann, Kristian Walsh and a very late entry from Catherine Stewart. Apologies for the mad formatting on all these. ...
AND now we move to our fourth offering after yesterday’s three. Mikes Nevin and Girling are separated by Stephen Goldsmith on Sunderland and Iain McIntosh on Southend. Mike Nevin What do Liverpool still need to do before the window closes? Sign...
