Remembering the arrival and legacy of Sadio Mane at Anfield, seven years to the day since he made the move from Southampton to Liverpool… IT’S the summer of 2016 and I’m sat in the Anfield Wrap studios. We’re about to record The Gutter so there are other...
Remembering Liverpool’s 2013-14 season ahead of its 10-year anniversary; a campaign some supporters still remember fondly… IT’S hard to believe it was 10 years ago. The unbelievable season of 2013-14. June 2013 saw a brief glimpse of optimism for...
Pepe Reina became the latest Liverpool hero to disappoint his fans for criticising Vinicius Jr.’s behaviour after he was racially abused… NEVER meet your heroes. That’s what they say, isn’t it? Of course, heroes become less of a thing the older and...
How Anfield said goodbye to some Liverpool legends, including Roberto Firmino, James Milner, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Naby Keita… I ENDED last week’s column by suggesting that Brighton might be the best team in the world. I’ve since gone right off...
Even before Saturday’s reaction to the national anthem being played at Anfield, an anti-Liverpool narrative was ready to be doubled down upon… IT might be one of the worst games I’ve ever seen. An act of attrition played out to an inevitable...
Jürgen Klopp has cited an overly emotional response to Liverpool’s last-minute winner against Spurs, which we can all relate to as fans… THERE’S a concept in George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ called ‘doublethink’. Broadly speaking it’s a...
Diogo Jota had gone so long without a goal that his minutes could’ve been questioned, but he’s displayed the difference a week can make since… I’VE started playing footy on Friday nights. At the tender age of 54, I’ve strapped on my boots for...
Liverpool fans may feel that there isn’t much left to play for, but The Reds’ draw with Arsenal can still provide momentum to end the season… RIGHT, let’s get to the main business. If you were at Anfield on Sunday, there was a definite strand,...
As Liverpool’s season continues to ebb away and fans try to take more perspective, is it time the players started to try and do the same? “THERE’S an old joke – um… “Two elderly women are at a Catskill Mountain resort, and one of them says,...
Remembering Lucas Leiva’s roller coaster Liverpool career, after he announced his premature retirement from football due to a heart condition… I WAS in Block 106 of the Kop for much of the 2008-9 season, slightly to the right of the goal and about...
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…
