NEIL ATKINSON was joined by Chris Maguire, Mike Nevin and Craig Rimmer in the aftermath of Liverpool’s 2-1 victory over AFC Wimbledon. Like what we do? Buy us a pint! DIRECT LINK – STITCH THAT LAWRIE SANCHEZ Podcast RSS feed. Get the TAW podcast on...
WE left for Wimbledon at 2pm on Monday. Which is a time most people are normally in work. Lots of Liverpool fans will have had to try to ask for time off, bully workmates into swapping shifts or talk their boss into letting them leave early on what is traditionally...
THE prevailing wisdom on Brad Jones right now might echo the coolly downbeat retort of John Lennon when asked about Ringo Starr: “He’s not even the best drummer in The Beatles” – writes LIAM BLAKE. Very droll but, like all the best quotes, it is in...
STEVE Gerrard Gerrard. So good we named him twice. Like all good things him and us is coming to an end but does it really have to be so soon? On the surface, at face value, perhaps, yes, the time is right. He is nearly 35 and his star is clearly no longer in the...
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...
