I KNOW that, technically, it’s a different club. I know that, technically, the Wimbledon of Fashanu and Jones, of prototype geezerdom and unbridled thuggery, came to a messy end in 2004 when it relocated to the exotic climes of Milton Keynes and became known as MK...
REPLACING Steven Gerrard. I love this title. Gareth Roberts gave it to me. This was the sentence: Can Liverpool replace him – do they need to, should they try, should they break the bank or stick with current spending policy etc. I love this because, firstly,...
TALISMANIC figure. I’ve always hated that phrase. Steven Gerrard has been a talismanic figure for a decade and a half in a Liverpool shirt — I always wanted so much more for him than to be just a talismanic figure. Liverpool FC became a football club that...
NEIL ATKINSON, Nick O’Prey, John Gibbons and Mike Girling reflect on Liverpool’s 2-2 draw against Leicester City and the bombshell news about Steven Gerrard. Like what we do? Buy us a pint! DIRECT LINK – THE HUYTON HAMMER Podcast RSS feed. Get the...
FOOTBALL should make us all feel like a kid. There is so much noise around football now, it’s easy to forget what makes it so great. We live in a footballing world where managers talking to the press is hyped up as a main event. Where the people who live closest...
I SHOULD be going to bed. I’m due in work at 7am, and the alarm clock will ring at 5. Instead, I’m pouring a bevvy and writing this because my head’s chocka. It’s chocka because one of the greatest players every to pull on the red shirt is...
THE New Year’s Day game is the end of a gauntlet. A gauntlet for everyone. Players, coaches and supporters. Christ the supporters. What a testing Christmas period it has been. Boxing Day away, an enormous Monday against Swansea and now this. There are other...
NEIL ATKINSON, Jim Boardman, Rob Gutmann and Mike Nevin talk through Liverpool versus Swansea, what’s got us to this point, Rodgers’ recent changes and what’s to come against Leicester City on New Year’s Day. Like what we do? Buy us a pint!...
HALF time and it is probably Liverpool’s best Anfield first half of the league campaign. Damning in one sense. Encouraging in another. There is tons of progress here since Sunderland. Tons of football. These footballers look like something approaching...
NEIL ATKINSON, John Gibbons, Mike Girling and Paul Cope stagger around a Liverpool away victory to nil against Burnley. Like what we do? Buy us a pint! DIRECT LINK – A STERLING PERFORMANCE? Podcast RSS feed. Get the TAW podcast on...
Salah’s future, summer exit talk, and inside insight from Lewis Steele, plus January pressure on Liverpool to add bodies. Guehi, Branthwaite, Wharton, Konaté’s contract, and who’s really on the radar.
Rob Gutmann hosts John Gibbons, Josh Sexton and Mike Kearney…
