“SELF-isolate,” they said. “Avoid mass gatherings and stay indoors” they said. “Great,” I said. “That’ll give me more time to write about football… Cancelled, you say?!” Yes, in these uncertain Coronavirus times, the football has been suspended. It is absolutely the...
THE Anfield Wrap and Liverpool FC. So intrinsically linked that they even recover from setbacks together. Yes, TAW’s website is back up and running, and it is a relief to be able to write for you lovely shiny people again, particularly as Liverpool were nice enough to...
TONY Britten’s composed anthem has become the evocative tune of elite European football hits, and you’re immediately thrown into that place again. For Liverpool, they are back in that place. Tonight, they return to the Wanda Metropolitano just 10 months...
THERE is an old Japanese proverb about luck, along the lines of: “To wait for luck is the same as waiting for death.” Be they little or big, moments of luck are all around. On the football pitch, it can range from a fortunate throw in, to having a ball ricochet off a...
IN October 2012, a mutual friend introduced Pep Guardiola to Garry Kasparov, arguably the greatest chess player of all time. Guardiola was on a sabbatical between his job at Barcelona and his eventual move to Bayern Munich, and during their first dinner in New York,...
SEEING Liverpool’s rivals thrashing about in the transfer market in the final week of the January window, trying to sign anything that moves, must be heartening for Michael Edwards to see. The Reds’ sporting director had done all his work for the month before it had...
THIS means more. Slightly trite slogans aside, to many, playing against ‘them’ would mean more regardless of the wider picture. Especially to those of us who were raised in a sea of Alex Ferguson-inspired Manchester United dominance. The Red Devils had the audacity to...
ANOTHER game. Another win. Another step closer to the Holy Grail. Liverpool’s 1-0 victory at Tottenham on Saturday was a fascinating insight into the state of both teams, the differences of both managers, and the frazzled mindset of those trying to downplay The Reds’...
HAPPY New Year, Reds. What a win that was, then. It was a very strange feeling, heading into a Merseyside derby at Anfield with Everton being lauded as heavy favourites. It was justified though, as Carlo Ancelotti went pretty much as strong as possible, while Jürgen...
IT was supposedly a meaningless tournament created as an indulgent money-spinner by FIFA. However, the triumphant Liverpool players seemed to enjoy their victory on Saturday a lot more than they were apparently meant to. Despite some missed chances, a determined and...
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…
