THERE’S something unsettling about David Moyes resurfacing in the beautiful surroundings of San Sebastian after he was dragged under by the sink or swim undercurrents he encountered in his all too short — yet roundly entertaining — time in charge of...
WHATEVER the individual take on Tuesday’s team selection – and we had everything from bold and brave to stupid and silly – most agreed on one thing: It meant the intensity of focus on Brendan Rodgers would increase when Chelsea came to town. It was always likely to be...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined by Rob Gutmann, Peter Hooton and Jim Boardman as they look back on the midweek defeat to the European Champions and look towards a crunch clash against Mourinho’s Chelsea Download issue 13 of #TAWMAG via iTunes or at...
CONFUSION rules my mind when I think of my football team these days. This Liverpool team confuses me. Brendan Rodgers confuses me. Question marks are everywhere and never more so than now in the aftermath of defeat to Real Madrid and prior to the impending visit of...
ANDRIY VORONIN and Peter Crouch probably aren’t a strike partnership that anyone would expect to lead a team to a rout in European competition, much less to the Champions League’s biggest ever margin of victory. Sometimes real life is truly stranger than fiction....
I START to write this under these two circumstances: a) not knowing if Gibbo is writing one b) in a taxi with Andy Heaton before the game We’ve just come out of Mercado de San Miguel. Have you been? You certainly should if you are ever in Madrid. It’s a...
“I am confident we will improve the team further and will be stronger for this coming season, when we will be competing on all fronts; domestically and in the greatest club competition in the world, the Champions League.” Brendan Rodgers 11th July 2014 “We lost a...
TWELVE years have passed since Rafael Benitez first introduced himself to Anfield. And what an introduction this was. The Spaniard arrived on Merseyside for a Champions League clash with his Valencia team on this very date back in 2002. The then reigning champions of...
IT’S been four long years since Christian Purslow pumped his fist and bared his gnashers in triumph outside the High Court in London. Four long years since Liverpool Football Club passed from one set of American owners to the next. Four testing years since the club...
ERIC Cantona’s smug face. That’s the immediate image that flashes in my mind whenever the FA Cup is mentioned. Eric frigging Cantona. The build up seemingly started at about 3am. My mum was on snack duty, diligently replenishing my supplies throughout the day as I sat...
