by Neil Atkinson | Sep 10, 2013 | Footie
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...
by Neil Atkinson | Sep 2, 2013 | Footie
‘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...
by Neil Atkinson | Sep 2, 2013 | Footie
‘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...
by Neil Atkinson | Sep 2, 2013 | Footie
“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...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 19, 2013 | Footie
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...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 16, 2013 | Footie
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. ...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 16, 2013 | Footie
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...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 15, 2013 | Footie
WE are already eight in. Now for another four. Trevor Downey, me, Juliet Jacques on Norwich and John Gibbons. Trevor Downey What do Liverpool still need to do before the window closes? Buy a first-team-ready left back and a defensive midfielder. Squad...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 15, 2013 | Footie
YOU’VE already had Messrs Coppack, Sutton, Fitzsimmons and Graves. Now we have Martin Fitzgerald, Andi Thomas, Jim Boardman and Phil Blundell’s predictions about what’s to come for Liverpool and other matters arising… Martin Fitzgerald...
by Neil Atkinson | Aug 15, 2013 | Footie
SO I’ve asked a few what they reckon will go on this season along with a few other questions to help take temperatures. We’ll put these on over the next couple of days. Here are the first four – Dave Sutton, Karl Coppack, Daniel Fitzsimmons and Steve...
