IN A TAW PLAYER SPECIAL Neil Atkinson speaks to the BBC’s Ben Smith who broke the latest instalment of the ongoing saga regarding Raheem Sterling and his apparent desire to leave Liverpool Football Club.
IT’S over then. The story’s over. All this time that we’ve spent watching him, devoted to him, obsessed by him, believing in him, trying to get inside his head, trying to figure out what makes him tick. Millions of us, worldwide millions, invested in...
A LOT of Liverpool fans seem to think things are pretty bleak at the moment, but I’m an optimist so here’s why I think the outlook might be sunnier than it first appears. THE FOOTBALL Liverpool have had a poor, poor season. Yet we’ve reached two semi...
DURING the occasional — well, more than occasional if I’m honest — moments of weakness I look at other clubs and wonder what it’s like to be them. Look at Wembley and the support there. Aston Villa are a pretty poor side, aren’t they?...
NEIL ATKINSON, John Gibbons and Gareth Roberts are in for this week’s regular Monday podcast to dissect another miserable Liverpool collapse at the hands of supposedly inferior opposition. Did the occasion of Steven Gerrard’s last Anfield match get to...
ABOUT 12 years ago a solicitor called Matthew Macefield tracked down Lee Mavers, the apparently elusive lead singer of The La’s, to a semi-detached house in Huyton. Intrigued by the myths and legends that surround Mavers, Macefield decided to write a book about his...
YOU turn up vaguely unsure. Because it is a football match and it is an occasion. Football matches are occasions you believe but this is different. The occasion and the match are separate entities. The occasion will be the occasion regardless. Despite not because. You...
THESE things have a habit of happening don’t they? To us at least. Last day of the Kop all over again. Unable to create enough chances or cope with their pace. But anyway. Some numbers with words. Simon Mignolet 7 Not sure what happens with their first one. Was...
LANGUAGE WARNING. Neil Atkinson is joined by Phil Blundell, Craig Rimmer and Rob Gutmann to talk about Liverpool’s performance against Crystal Palace. Which is why there is language. However there is also a load of chat and wine. Wine! Imagine it. Come and get...
THE obvious thing to write this week would have been the sad departure — after his last home game later today — of Steven Gerrard. However, there will be a deluge of articles elsewhere giving Steven’s final act in a red shirt the warranted coverage....
