The changes to Liverpool’s forward line has thrown up two unlikely heroes so far – but will either of them be trusted to start games soon?… LIVERPOOL’s forward line loves the attention. It bursts into action creating records, shushing...
Newcastle paid for playing an emotional game whilst Liverpool, guided by their imperious captain Virgil van Dijk, kept their cool… LAST week I spoke about emotion and how drama clings to this club like a barnacle. On Monday night, Newcastle invested...
Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Newcastle 2 Liverpool 3 in the 2025-2026 Premier League season… Apropos of nothing, pre match Newcastle play Blitzkrieg Bop. Never ones to let the side down, are we? Got to add to the classic clips...
The first game of the Premier League season brought with it the usual dose of drama as Liverpool found a way past Bournemouth at Anfield… THIS CLUB can put you through the wringer. Dan Austin summed it up perfectly on the Post-Match Show when he said that...
Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 4 Bournemouth 2 in the 2025-2026 Premier League season… WHEN you need them, The Reds come through for you. For years, honestly years before 2015 this was rarely the case. The Reds...
As the Premier League returns and Liverpool begin at Anfield, the power of football is ready to unite us all in remembering Diogo Jota… LIFE goes on, as they say. This is never more salient than in football. Liverpool are champions, but we all start again...
The Community Shield completes Arne Slot’s new look Liverpool side’s testing stage. Next up is the real thing for the Premier League champions… LAST WEEK I asked if the Community Shield was a serious fixture. The online replies were pretty...
“He will ultimately be a striker who didn’t do the business for Liverpool (except for when he did) and who will be a subjective taste. I loved him and am fine with those who didn’t.” I’M IN A WhatsApp group with Kris Walsh. We were...
Should the Community Shield be seen as a legitimate chance to increase Liverpool’s trophy count, or just to increase fitness?… BACK in May, I was surprised to hear Pep Guardiola’s response to accusations that City had had a poor season. He’d been...
Would selling Alexander Isak to Liverpool for big money usher in a positive new era for Newcastle United, akin to when the Reds sold Coutinho? DID you want to sell Phil Coutinho? Cast your mind back to the heady days of summer 2017. Virgil Van Dijk was flirting...
The Pub Crawlers Podcast: Down The Local with Neil Atkinson (S1E11)
The 11th episode of season one of The Pub Crawlers Podcast was recorded ‘Down The Local’ in Liverpool, as Rob Gutmann hosts Steve Graves and Neil Atkinson to discuss risky texts, cats in pubs, jukeboxes 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…
