THERE’S a part of me that likes games like this one the most. If you love the game, are obsessed with your team, and every time they play you are tormented by anxiety, then you’ll know that simply watching your team week in, week out can feel genuinely...
THIS isn’t going to be a draw. Chelsea these days are a schizophrenic fantastic car crash of a side. Liverpool are nigh-on the best team in the world but one that’s just taken a disconcerting beating. The betting has The Reds as strong favourites and rightly so....
LIVERPOOL are almost too perfect. At times the football is so precious that it feels like it’s inevitable that it will eventually be stolen from us. When you’re in love with a beautiful football team, it can be hard. Take Sadio Mane’s achingly delicious equaliser...
“FOOTBALL is fantastic when it’s a morning match…” (Frank Sidebottom, “Football Is Really Fantastic” – 1983) I’ve quoted the late great Chris Sievey (aka Frank Sidebottom) before for this column. I love Chris/Frank, a man out of and ahead of his time, but he’s...
SOMETIMES I think I’m just wishing my life away. Last season has done strange things to me. Maybe you’re the same. I’m catching myself wanting the year to move along faster because I’m impatient to find out how this all ends up for the Mighty Reds. It’s funny but I’m...
A FRENETIC start to the season has finally eased. Over the past week, Liverpool were able to rest weary early-season limbs for a full seven days following the important win over Southampton. We are only two league games into the new campaign but already it feels like...
IT’S very early into a league season to be talking about “must-win” league games. Southampton away is a must-win game for Liverpool. And yet… And yet, isn’t this all really the false construct of a man or group of men deemed it must become this way? Sheikh Mansour and...
DID you know the Super Cup was invented by a Dutch journalist in 1972? He pitched the idea to UEFA and after some deliberation they eventually went “what the hell, let’s do it”. “A super cup, you say…” I like the idea that early...
I’VE always felt that the first game of a new season is the most special. I’ll bore on about it at the beginning of each new campaign. The first fixture is the one to be most eagerly anticipated. There’s something timelessly pure about the moment just before the first...
“OVER and over and over and over, “Like a monkey with a miniature cymbal…” That song by Hot Chip. Can’t get it out of my head. My head is cluttered, my swede is cabbaged. Buzzing, full of noise, full of songs. I’ll be in Madrid. Not sure where yet. You may find...
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…
