A FEAST OF STEVEN

A hamstring strain in the game against West Ham means Liverpool have to do without skipper Steven Gerrard for the next six weeks, a busy six weeks, and there’s no doubt he’ll be missed. Gerrard recently bagged his 100th goal for the Reds and that seemed as...

HEROES

THE old saying is true. Never meet your heroes. For every Titan from your youth who you’d watch week in, week out and wondered just how they could cope with being in their own skin, there’s the embarrassment of idiotic pundits, casual racists or those possessing...
PODCAST – MOMENTUM

PODCAST – MOMENTUM

Neil was joined by Wayne Scholes, Rob Gutmann and Jim Boardman as they look back at the mauling of Big Sam’s West Ham Download Issue 4 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes DIRECT LINK TO PODCAST: MOMENTUM Podcast RSS feed iTunes

TIME TO BANK ON SUÁREZ – #TAWMAG5 OUT NOW

In the week that saw Luis Suárez score four goals in one game – three of them ‘goal of the season’ contenders –it just so happens that we chose Liverpool’s little Uruguayan hero as the cover story for issue 5 of our digital magazine. It’s also the week where Suárez...

TOP SOUEY

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...

KOROVA AND OUT

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...

A Gentle Kind of Cruelty

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...
CITYTALK: EYE OF THE TIGER

CITYTALK: EYE OF THE TIGER

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...

THE VAGARIES OF SUPPORT

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...

ODD MAN OUT?

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...