by Steve Graves | Aug 15, 2012 | Footie
Three days! Just three days till real football’s back! You can try as hard as you like to be all insouciant and calculated and bang on about the Olympics and everything but let’s all just get giddy and celebrate the fact that the best, most beautiful,...
by Steve Graves | Aug 14, 2012 | Footie
Right, this is pretty self-explanatory. Some of TAW’s finest plus a couple of special guests have done us some predictions for the season ahead. Some are sensible. Some aren’t. Some are outrageous hostages to fortune. You’ll disagree. Add your own in...
by Andy Heaton | Aug 12, 2012 | Footie
OVER 25,000 packed in to Anfield to honour Liverpool Legend Sami Hyypia, as his Bayer Leverkusen side fell to a 3-1 defeat in the Reds’ final pre-season game before Brendan Rodgers’ side kick off their Premier League campaign. Notwithstanding the absence...
by Gareth Roberts | Aug 10, 2012 | Footie
“It might be one of those situations where it’s not in Daniel’s hands, and it’s up to the owners at the end of the day. “The manager has gone on record and said that every player has got his price, so we’ll have to wait and see, but of...
by Scot Williams | Aug 9, 2012 | Footie
HILLSBOROUGH JUSTICE CAMPAIGN LONDON ROCKS FUNDRAISER CHARITY AUCTION SEPTEMBER 15TH 2012 I WAS recently approached by the organizers of the HILLSBOROUGH JUSTICE CAMPAIGN London Rocks fundraiser, due to take place in London on September 15th, and asked if I would...
by Rory Smith | Aug 6, 2012 | Footie
Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter, heartbroken and drained, somehow muster the strength to clamber from their lightweight double scull adrift on the still, dark pool at Eton Dorney and into the BBC’s interview area. John Inverdale, sparkling, feminine eyes set in his...
by Gareth Roberts | Aug 5, 2012 | Footie
IMAGINE walking into a garage, plucking a spanner from the mechanic’s hand and saying ‘hang on, mate – you do it like THIS, I’ve seen it on the telly’. You wouldn’t dream of it, would you? So why do we – the football fan collective – think we know better than managers...
by Steve Graves | Jul 23, 2012 | Footie
Problems. Jay-Z dealt with his by emphasising the positive. He’s a glass half-full kind of guy. Notorious B.I.G. was more downbeat, seeing the kind of causal link between the accumulation of capital and the emergence of personal challenges with which Rosie Redknapp,...
by Steve Graves | Jul 16, 2012 | Footie
It’s become the fashion, whenever we’re confronted by an extraordinary sporting moment or talent, to grant it the title of ‘best ever’. Almost yearly, it seems, we are told a player or team or match is the greatest in history, unparalleled, unique. This summer the...
by The Anfield Wrap | Jul 16, 2012 | Footie
By Joe Milord FEW sides in the world are able to financially boss their way into winning. At the moment, only Man City, Chelsea, and Manchester United have distinguished themselves as clubs who are poised to do so. So, what are the “other” clubs left to do in such...
