FERNANDO MORIENTES BROKE MY HEART

FERNANDO MORIENTES BROKE MY HEART

DOES anyone remember Clubcall? I don’t know if it’s still going but I used to ring it when I was at work. It was a phone service which gave you club rumours and interviews ‘direct from Anfield’. I can still remember the opening bars and a...
BECOMING BRENDAN RODGERS

BECOMING BRENDAN RODGERS

NEIL SCOTT had his doubts when the current Liverpool manager was appointed two years ago but now he’s a believer THERE will be a time, and it won’t be too long coming, when they will make a film about Liverpool’s 2013/14 season. Some kind of fantasy action adventure...

IN DEPTH: JAPAN AND THE WORLD CUP

With less than a week to go until the 2014 World Cup gets under way in Brazil, J-League expert Dave Phillips has an in-depth at look Group C hopefuls Japan, analysing the squad in detail in all areas of the pitch as well as taking a look at likely tactics and the...

AUSTRALIA (II): How The Socceroos Will Play

WHEN I set about researching the current Aussie team, its manager, and the tactical side of things, it quickly dawned on me how little I knew. There were only four players whose names I recognised (one of them spending the latter part of the season injured at my...

ALGERIA (I) – Desert foxes and ghosts of the past

By Hari Sethi INJUSTICE INJUSTICE is rife throughout the history of professional football; the best team doesn’t always win, the best players don’t always get what they deserve. Yet whilst injustice initially results in an enveloping sense of despair and anger, it can...
CITYTALK – SUMMER DREAMING

CITYTALK – SUMMER DREAMING

NEIL ATKINSON was joined by John Gibbons, Mike Nevin and Craig Rimmer are in the tower to talk about Emre Can, Columbia and Mike Nevin’s England. Music this week from The Tea Street Band and Shane Beales Download Issue 10 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at...
TAW MAGAZINE 10

TAW MAGAZINE 10

Cover Exclusive Noel Gallagher interview Extracts from a forthcoming book by some of the TAW crew Neil Scott assesses the transformation of Brendan Rodgers Bookie Phil Blundell is back with his tips for the World Cup A teenager’s perspective on the season just...

THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB

THERE is a NASA research centre in the middle of Antarctica called Concordia. It is in the coldest, darkest and most extreme environment on the planet. The outside temperature regularly falls below -80C, or -99.9C with wind chill – the extreme limit of its scale....
THE WORLD CUP: IT WAS ACCEPTABLE IN THE 80s

THE WORLD CUP: IT WAS ACCEPTABLE IN THE 80s

THE football hipster in me had fallen out of love with the World Cup a little ever since it was expanded to a 32-team tournament for France 1998. While yes, the event was given a more symmetrical system, I felt it lost some shine. The idea of four out of the six...