CITYTALK: IAN MCGARRY’S BIG NIGHT OUT

Neil, Gibbo and Jim discuss what went wrong at White Hart Lane, look towards Southampton and ponder whether they could ever match the prowess of Ian McGarry. Music this week from Filter Distortion and Bird. Direct link to CITYTALK: IAN MCGARRY’S BIG NIGHT OUT...

A BRIDGE TOO FAR

SORRY Chelsea fans, but you really haven’t thought this one through. Singing “Fuck off, Benitez?” Booing your own manager on day one? Way to go. When the stadium announcer read out the attendance at Stamford Bridge and followed it by thanking fans...

PODCAST: THE GERRARD CONUNDRUM

Neil, Rob, Andy, Jim, Steve, Mike Nevin and Dan Fiztsimmon are joined by Chris Maguire as they argue the old point gained v two dropped chestnut and whether Steven Gerrard could be better used? Direct link to PODCAST: THE GERRARD CONUNDRUM Podcast RSS feed iTunes...

Rafa, Chelsea, and the Big Poo Panzerotti

SO Xavi Valero has gone and gone to London, taking his merry band of hired coaching guns with him in his wake, with the little matter of one Rafael Benitez Maudes nestling his prodigious footballing cojones in the blue plastic Recaro Chaise Longue of the Chelsea...

INTERVIEW: GUILLEM BALAGUE

In an Anfield Wrap special Andy Heaton chats to Guillem Balague about his take on Liverpool, Brendan Rodgers, FSG, the origins of Tiki-Taka, Rafa at Chelsea and his new book Pep Guardiola: Another Way Of Winning Pep Guardiola: Another Way Of Winning can be purchased...

INTERVIEWS: SHELVEY AND COLE

Joe Cole and Jonjo Shelvey spoke to the media in the mixed zone after Liverpool”s 2-2 Europa League draw at Anfield against Switzerland”s BSC Young Boys, listen to it using one of the methods below: Podcast RSS feed iTunes

A LAND FIT FOR HEROES

(or the further adventures of Martin Samuel, old right wingers, and a Uruguayan centre forward) Good art however “immoral” is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise....

GIG OF THE WEEK: THE RAVEONETTES ON TOUR

CHRIS MOYLES has never heard of the Raveonettes. Or should I say had never heard of them. A number of years ago he was interviewing a nondescript indie band, lets say The Kaizer Chiefs, who had just been in New York. He asked them if they had seen anyone famous, as...

JOE COLE: A VICTIM OF AGE, POLITICS AND CIRCUMSTANCE

By Karl Coppack SOMETIMES great players have graceless exits. Robbie Fowler ended his first tenure by being substituted at half time thanks to Didi Hamann being sent off at Sunderland, Fernando Torres skulked off with two goals at Molineux but without a smile and...