OH! wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north/With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red? I first read these lines (from Macaulay’s The Battle of Naseby) in 1978 in the first book I’d ever bought about Liverpool Football Club’s history. The...
ROB GUTMANN, Neil Atkinson and Ben Johnson try to answer the age old question, who do you want to win when Everton play Manchester United? The Liverpool Echo’s David Prentice knows. He supports Everton, and is waxing lyrical on how Everton’s young...
THE COWBELLS are out early in this week’s Rider, an uncomplicated show of ten songs loved by Neil Atkinson, John Gibbons, Stephanie Heneghan and Adam Melia with some talking in between. There’s also some Chicago House, a correction of the previous...
IN this weeks look at the back pages, host Gareth Roberts is joined by sidekick Rob Gutmann, Liverpool Echo’s Neil Docking and handsome Paul Senior to talk about the things real journalists are writing about in the press. They discuss what the papers have made...
THURSDAY night IS AFQ. Neil Atkinson, Mike Girling, Stephanie Heneghan, Ben Johnson, Timo Tierney. Hold on to your hats. They get through more questions than ever before. Drinking in the house, Europe ranked, Big Sam rated in scales of wool, Where were you when Hodgey...
A TEARFUL Matt Beard saw his reign as manager of Liverpool Ladies FC end with the Reds bowing out of the Women’s Champions League, losing 1-0 on the night and 2-0 on aggregate to Italians Brescia CF. Barbara Bonansea’s goal came against the run of play...
JOHN GIBBONS is joined by Rob Gutmann and The Liverpool Echo’s Andy Kelly to talk, in particular, about a pair of impressive wins for Liverpool U18s. They also discuss the issue around a lack of fixtures for the U21s and what a change in manager might mean for...
ROB GUTMANN is joined by the Liverpool Echo’s Neil Docking, John Gibbons and Andy Heaton to discuss the ongoing ‘war’ between the stats guys and the purists . Its nerds vs jocks. Football is the winner .
ALBERTO Aquilani hadn’t played a game for Liverpool when a banner in his name was unfurled on the Kop for the first time. It displayed the Italian’s shirt number in Roman numerals next to an emphatic message telling of a hero rising, as if the new signing was a...
ANOTHER Well Read. Well, it makes 2 anyway. The three books are crackers this month, all discussed influenced by events in a sense. All have current talking points attached. Living On The Volcano by Michael Calvin A Life Too Short by Ronald Reng The Damned United by...
