THE SUMMER OFF (WE GO AGAIN)

THE SUMMER OFF (WE GO AGAIN)

IT WASN’T always this way, but I enjoy the end of a season these days. Maybe it’s age or the effect of non-football life washing over me, but I’m glad of the rest. People often draw the analogy of your club being akin to a high-maintenance girlfriend...
INTERVIEW: ASHWELL PRICE

INTERVIEW: ASHWELL PRICE

SOON the World Cup will be over and the start of the season is still over a month away. So how are we supposed to get our fix of sport in the mean time? Well for those of us based in Liverpool, Lancashire Cricket Club come down the East Lancs to play in Aigburth for a...

LIVERPOOL MINUS SUAREZ: REALIGNMENTS

I SAW TONY EVANS two nights ago. Pint in Cask. You know the drill – loads of talking, mostly done quickly. I tried to explain my issues around Suarez going. I don’t think I was doing it very well. He said I was too concerned about entertainment. Winning,...

CITYTALK – DIRTY SANCHEZ

STAND IN HOST Andy Heaton was joined by Tony Barrett, Rob Gutmann and John Gibbons to discuss dirty back room deals, Bournemouth’s bargaining position, Sanchez and Suarez’s big switch, and life with a single striker and and too much money. Download Issue 10 of #TAW...

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO FEEL?

TO thoroughly misquote John Lennon: Last night the wife said…”How do you feel about this whole Suarez thing then?” I’ve said it before but it bears repeating, my wife’s a Blue. A fanatical Blue. Her whole family is. She has an uncle who...
PODCAST – SHOULDERING ON

PODCAST – SHOULDERING ON

NEIL ATKINSON and John Gibbons were joined by Si Steers and and Karl Coppack in another TAW World Cup special with debate also inevitably focusing on Luis Suarez’s ban following his latest biting incident. Podcast also includes last week’s City Talk show....

AUSTRALIA (V) – COMPARE AND CONTRAST

COMPARE and contrast the following statements. Both were made by managers whose teams finished bottom of their qualifying group at World Cup 2014. Statement A “We feel emotional because the fact is we wanted to do so well in the tournament, to get out of the group. We...
COLOMBIA III:  JAMES & JOHNNY

COLOMBIA III: JAMES & JOHNNY

JAMES Rodríguez. What a footballer, writes CRAIG RIMMER. I could choose to write about Colombia, and how they have made impressively light work of Greece, Ivory Coast and Japan, and are one of just three teams to claim a maximum nine points. But, I’d rather just write...

WHY SHOULD LIVERPOOL SELL LUIS SUAREZ?

IT’S hard to add to the debate on Luis Suarez, if for no other reason than Neil Atkinson boxed it off with a brilliant article the other day. The only thing I’d add to Neil’s piece is that Liverpool should not sell Suarez. Why should they? If Real Madrid, for...