GIT AWARD 2014 – SHORTLIST REVEALED

GIT AWARD 2014 – SHORTLIST REVEALED

IS it really that time of year already? It only feels like last week when our Neil was presenting Baltic Fleet with the very fetching GIT Award 2013. This year’s 12 shortlisted acts has been announced this week, all based in or connected to the Merseyside music...
LIVERPOOL: PLEASE DON’T STOP THE MUSIC

LIVERPOOL: PLEASE DON’T STOP THE MUSIC

by DAVID SEGAR AS well as being a quite dreadful song from Rihanna (who isn’t an Irish airline apparently, I Googled it), Please Don’t Stop the Music is the title of a romantic novel from the pen of Jane Lovering. According to the reviews on Amazon (well...
PREMIER LEAGUE – WE’RE HAVING A LAUGH….

PREMIER LEAGUE – WE’RE HAVING A LAUGH….

THIS 2013/14 variation of Liverpool FC seems to have attained the power of humour most surreal. In the days following the wins against Arsenal and Swansea, whenever the manner of those victories flashed across my mind – even upon beautifully random occasions...
AND WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP IN MAY?

AND WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP IN MAY?

TO be honest, I still haven’t got over Stoke away. Stoke was the season. It was 0-0s and defeats only prior to the current insanity. Stoke is Jon Walters, long throw-ins, getting smacked all over the park, always cold and that nervous walk back to the car across...
PODCAST: ALL THE BEST

PODCAST: ALL THE BEST

NEIL Atkinson was joined in the studio by Rob Gutmann, Sean Rogers and James Sutton as they revel in the afterglow of the brilliant 3-0 win at St Mary’s, and yet another step towards the League title.   Get issue 7 of TAW’s monthly digital mag free...

SUBJECT. VERB. OBJECT. (SOUTHAMPTON 0 LIVERPOOL 3)

BROCKLE (Neil’s girlfriend – Ed): “Your articles are horrible.” People seem to like them. Came as a surprise to me, actually. “Sentences without subjects. Subject. Verb. Object. That’s how the English language works.” It’s malleable. And it’s fascinating to make...
TRACKSUITED AND BOOTED

TRACKSUITED AND BOOTED

SCOUSERS love tracksuits, with every period in the city’s recent history defined by a variation on this most misunderstood of garments. Here, TONY TEASDALE picks some of his favourites from down the years… The two-stripe PE job (1974-80) In the old days, before the...
JAN MOLBY: WORTH HIS WEIGHT IN GOLD

JAN MOLBY: WORTH HIS WEIGHT IN GOLD

FOOTIE players at the top level carrying a bit of timber are as rare a sight these days as semi-flared cords on The Kop. Many would argue both developments are no bad thing. But as a wearer of said cords back in the day (so?) – and a devout fan of the often gloriously...