TALISMANIC figure. I’ve always hated that phrase. Steven Gerrard has been a talismanic figure for a decade and a half in a Liverpool shirt — I always wanted so much more for him than to be just a talismanic figure. Liverpool FC became a football club that...
NEIL ATKINSON, Nick O’Prey, John Gibbons and Mike Girling reflect on Liverpool’s 2-2 draw against Leicester City and the bombshell news about Steven Gerrard. Like what we do? Buy us a pint! DIRECT LINK – THE HUYTON HAMMER Podcast RSS feed. Get the...
FOOTBALL should make us all feel like a kid. There is so much noise around football now, it’s easy to forget what makes it so great. We live in a footballing world where managers talking to the press is hyped up as a main event. Where the people who live closest...
I SHOULD be going to bed. I’m due in work at 7am, and the alarm clock will ring at 5. Instead, I’m pouring a bevvy and writing this because my head’s chocka. It’s chocka because one of the greatest players every to pull on the red shirt is...
THE New Year’s Day game is the end of a gauntlet. A gauntlet for everyone. Players, coaches and supporters. Christ the supporters. What a testing Christmas period it has been. Boxing Day away, an enormous Monday against Swansea and now this. There are other...
Adam Melia, Neil Atkinson, John Gibbons and Stephanie Heneghan take stock of what they have picked on since July 2014 and talk through the year’s songs, highs and lows. So it’s a magnificent dozen for The Rider. Twelve great songs you should have heard...
NEIL ATKINSON, Jim Boardman, Rob Gutmann and Mike Nevin talk through Liverpool versus Swansea, what’s got us to this point, Rodgers’ recent changes and what’s to come against Leicester City on New Year’s Day. Like what we do? Buy us a pint!...
HALF time and it is probably Liverpool’s best Anfield first half of the league campaign. Damning in one sense. Encouraging in another. There is tons of progress here since Sunderland. Tons of football. These footballers look like something approaching...
NEIL ATKINSON, John Gibbons, Mike Girling and Paul Cope stagger around a Liverpool away victory to nil against Burnley. Like what we do? Buy us a pint! DIRECT LINK – A STERLING PERFORMANCE? Podcast RSS feed. Get the TAW podcast on...
LET’S have a catch up. I’ve been banging on about being good in both boxes. Been banging on about how you can be great for 70 yards but what happens in front of goal defines results. Today, first half especially, Liverpool were second best, were dreadful,...
