MIKE NEVIN recalls just how good the Liverpool playing days of Graeme Souness really were “WE’VE seen a fiesta of goals tonight, but that was the gem;that was the Daddy of them all.” Words exhorted by the late BBC Radio Two commentator, Peter Jones describing the last...
SILVER-TONGUED TAW podcaster and writer ROB GUTMANN talks about his day job and the thing he’s proudest of MOST of my adult working life has been spent in the realm of making places for people to eat and drink in. In short, I’ve done bars and restaurants. Mainly in...
WHEN I was at Uni, during a particularly soul destroying moment in a particularly soul destroying lecture, I looked up in my moment of dread and saw the sole of a class mate’s shoe. It took a while to figure out what the lettering said. But eventually I figured...
Ahead of the visit to Steve Bruce’s Hull City Neil was joined in the CityTalk studios by John Gibbons, Steve Graves and Alison McGovern, with Jonathan Wilson on the phone to discuss his new book, The Anatomy of Liverpool. This week’s music is from The...
I’LL come clean. I’m writing this after a good couple of hours with Red or Dead, David Peace’s behemoth novelisation of Shankly’s life. It’s a remarkable piece of work. Some say it highlights the constant repetition of football life. From game to day...
By Craig Rimmer 18 successive Premier League starts upon a £15 million arrival in the summer of 2012. The man cherry-picked by Brendan Rodgers to accompany him on the journey from South Wales to Merseyside. Joe Allen was once reputed to be the vision of what Brendan...
By Hari Sethi AS the final whistle blew ending Fulham’s miserable afternoon at Anfield on the Saturday before the international break, players and fans alike celebrated yet another step forward in the now increasingly evident plans of Brendan Rodgers. The Cottagers...
Neil was joined by Kristian Walsh, Rob Gutmann and Sean Rogers as they sum up the season so far. Music this week from Doodah Farm Download Issue 4 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes DIRECT LINK TO CITYTALK: A GOOD START? Podcast RSS feed iTunes...
This year saw the 100 year anniversary of the birth of Bill Shankly, to celebrate and mark the iconic date, we have dedicated Issue 4 of our digital magazine to Liverpool Football Club’s most iconic and revered manager. Over thirty years after his passing, Bill...
BEFORE I grew up and became a sport journalist, I was a football fan. Football fan is a bit of a dirty phrase now, isn’t it? Everything is about the bigger picture when you’re older and fandom can never be unbridled; it’s all balance sheets, shot-to-goal ratios and...
Liverpool 2024/25 Season Awards: TAW Midweek Extra
As it’s awards season Midweek Extra this week has our panel discussing their highlights of the season, including moment of the season and player of the season before debuting an masterclass of a tribute to Ryan Gravenberch courtesy of Mo Stewart.
John Gibbons is joined by Jimmy Carr, Mo Stewart and Kev Reilly.
Also in the show John Gibbons chats to author Keith Salmon about his book ‘There’s Something that the Kop wants you to know’.
