I’M on the top of the world, Lookin’ down on creation, And the only explanation I can find, Is the love that I’ve found ever since you’ve been around, Your love’s put me at the top of the world… (R. Carpenter & J. Bettis, 1972)...
THERE was always a possibility. A possibility that Barcelona might dish out the kind of first leg beating to Liverpool that would render the second leg of this European Cup semi final all but redundant. Liverpool had the capacity to have beaten the Catalans and beaten...
A SEASON that has brought so much joy, a campaign of victory upon victory, of glorious football is now ebbing towards an ultimately sad conclusion. It shouldn’t be this way, but it just is. Defeat in the Nou Camp on Wednesday night was hard to take. Attempting to get...
WE’VE come a long way. Just typing out the header – Barcelona away – made we shiver, made me twitch. To be a team facing them in the semi final of a European Cup is something to be. We can know we should feel lucky to be where we are today yet...
IT will be strange at Anfield in Friday night. As we danced and bounced in the Cardiff sunshine last weekend, dreaming of and expecting a Man City slip in their derby, hoping for the break in the case that would open this league up for us, Huddersfield on a Friday...
THERE’S going to be a five-day stretch that spans from this Saturday morning until next Wednesday night in which the destiny of this season’s league title will be decided. In that space of time, Liverpool will play Cardiff City, and Manchester City will play...
I WAS in Sheffield on April 15, 1989. I was 22 years, four months and 10 days old. I try to think about that day as little as possible. The years have passed to become the decades that are now drifting by at pace. My memory of that April day is razor sharp. I think...
HERE we are again and here they are again. It’s 2014 all over again. Us on the edge of fulfilling our destiny and them cast in the role of spiteful dream wreckers. There was no need for them to take the title from us and hand it to Manchester City in 2014, and equally...
I’M away for this. On holiday. Feels a bit mad to be away at this most crucial phase of our season, but we are where we are. Watching football alone in bars in warmer places is a guilty pleasure of mine, though. I’m at peace with it. My sons kick off whenever I book...
IS there a noun for feeling simultaneously excited at the prospect of an event and yet dreading it in equal measure? The Germans surely have such a word. This is all Liverpool games for me now. This my life. It is hard, without the benefit of hindsight, to appreciate...
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…
