IT has been a very long time since we’ve been able to talk about Liverpool fixtures being meaningless. The title was secured three games ago and in near absolute terms, the remaining games have very little tangible worth. Obviously, it is not quite this simple, as...
I WANT to live to be 103, like Vera Lynn. I’m going to live my life like that’s a done deal. I’ve survived a 30-year Liverpool title drought and I reckon I’ve got it in me to survive two more lengthy famines. I used to fret that I may never see The Reds at the top of...
LIVERPOOL supporters have been truly spoiled this season. We’ve gorged on a diet of wins and goals and have been league champions in all but name for months. Wrapping up league titles early is not a new phenomenon. Just two seasons ago, Pep Guardiola’s 100-point Man...
IT sounds beyond a cliche to categorise supporting Liverpool Football Club as a rollercoaster ride. We seem to all but constantly be at the mercies of the extremities of fate. Our relationship with the team is not a normal one. The average ‘sports fan’ does not go...
AT this stage of the European Cup, a year ago, Liverpool eliminated Bayern Munich in exhilarating style. It was the performance that set Liverpool on course for Champions League glory, at a moment in which a hitherto majestic league campaign had begun to slightly...
THE blip became a jolt. That morphed into a slump, and could come to be viewed as a full-blown, old-school ‘crisis’ if Liverpool fail to beat both Bournemouth and Atlético in the next five days. Hey, don’t talk like that man. Stay positive, stay grateful. Liverpool,...
ANOTHER season that’s taking its toll. I’m nearly getting nostalgic for mid-90s oblivion. Those halcyon days when the League Cup was still a big deal. As stark a contrast from today’s adventures as could’ve been imagined. Success is harder work than failure. Rattling...
THE European Cup is a strange old thing. In its autumn phase it’s more irritation than objective. Then, spring looms, and it blossoms. Our hugely complacent but justified taking of the league title for granted in turn casts the possibilities in the Champions League...
SIX wins from a heaven so eased towards, it defies description. “What just happened”, as the kids say. Let’s spell it out. Liverpool topped a 97-point season with a 24 wins from 25 streak and stand on the precipice of immortality. Manchester City, reprised...
I’M really looking forward to this. Nothing like watching The Reds disrespect the world’s oldest cup competition, at Anfield, under the lights. Many were surprised by Jürgen Klopp’s decision to rest his entire senior squad for this replay. I’m not sure he made the...
The Pub Crawlers Podcast: Down The Local with Mo Stewart (S1E5)
The fifth episode of season one of The Pub Crawlers Podcast was recorded ‘Down The Local’ in Liverpool, as Rob Gutmann hosts Steve Graves and Mo Stewart to discuss worst pub toilet experiences, music in pubs, Glastonbury, 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…
