LIVERPOOL neither attacked nor defended nor midfielded with conviction against Bordeaux. It was frustrating to watch. There is a pleasure to be taken from the following 1-1s away from home in Europe: a) A swashbuckling side hammer the opposition goal but their...
NEIL ATKINSON, Paul Cope and Paul Johnson talk about Liverpool’s 1-1 draw away at Bordeaux. They talk about Liverpool’s hesitancy, do they attack or defend with enough conviction? How about all the youngsters? What about the goal from Lallana? All of it in...
CAUGHT out by the mad kick off time, Gibbo is busy literally blowing his own trumpet so that left us with no-one to do the ratings. As Twitter has been giving us a bit of stick recently we decided to ask Twitter to do the ratings instead. Then it can give itself some...
IN a pre-match, slightly rushed, AFQ, host Neil Atkinson is joined by John Gibbons, Gareth Roberts and Paul Cope as they tackle footballers in parliament, conflicts to live in and grass as skin. As always, it’s your questions. So don’t blame us. If you're...
WE’VE been here before. Perhaps not as poisonousness, perhaps not as omnipresent. But this is a familiar juncture, a well-known walkway. Brendan Rodgers should be sacked to save Liverpool. There are petitions. There are campaigns. There are banners and there are...
THREE at the back. It’s not something that’s particularly popular in football now is it? It’s very 1990s, writes PHIL BLUNDELL. Roy Evans was a big fan of it — it nearly won us a title in the mid 90s and England had a crack at it at Euro 96 and the 1998 World...
I REALLY do not want to be writing this piece. Let me say that first, to get it out of the way. If I had my way — if we all had our way — Liverpool would be cruising at the top of the league and we would all be huddled together talking about the majesty of...
IT’S a two part Unwrapped, of sorts, all on the merits, or otherwise, of the Europa League. In part one Rob Gutmann was joined by Stuart Wright, Paul Senior and Serafino Ingardia in the TAW den. Then Neil Atkinson spoke to Julien Laurens from BT Sport up the...
BORDEAUX. Just arrived that bit too early for me this autumn. Can’t justify this Thursday to be in amongst the vineyards. Were we playing it when we go to Kazan, well that could be quite different. Means it’ll be the telly for me watching this, though...
The Rider has a guest! An actual guest! Dan Wilson, lead singer of The Cubical has just released his first solo album – All Love Is Blind – and he is in the studio to discuss that, the Beard District and generally just where stuff is. He also plays Ladder...
