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...
FIFTY-SIX years ago to this day – July 29, 1958 – a bonafide legend signed for Liverpool Football Club. “Sir” Roger Hunt was spotted playing for Stockton Heath in the Mid-Cheshire League by Bill Jones, himself a former Liverpool player, and the grandad of...
NOTHING said ‘cup final day’ more than a dog in full football kit. The FA Cup Final used to be the biggest day on the football calendar. It was absolutely massive and the country would grind to a halt to decorate front windows of houses, to hand over good money to buy...
by STEVEN SCRAGG A CUP TIE tie lost but momentum maintained and a readjustment of mindset. I’m trying to grasp the vibe I’m meant to be experiencing after we tumbled out of the FA Cup to Arsenal at the Emirates. On one hand, I will never do anything other than...
WOULD you swap a win here for three in the league? Would you rest Suarez and Sturridge? It’s only the FA Cup… I want Liverpool to win everything. Every game. Every cup; from The Liverpool Senior Cup to The Champions League. I want silverware tied up in red and white,...
WHEN Daniel Sturridge passed his debut Liverpool goal in to Mansfield’s net, he did his best to look nonchalant. Perhaps aware that putting one past a non-league side wasn’t the kind of thing Real Proper Strikers Who Play Through the Middle like what he is...
EVERY time I see that a magazine or newspaper has a feature on the (fantastic) sports photographer Stuart Roy Clarke, I smile. Because I usually know what’s coming. Stuart Clarke, for those who don’t know, concentrates mainly on taking pictures of football fans rather...
The Break Up of Liverpool’s Squad & Sarr Incoming? | TAW Unwrapped
On this episode of TAW Unwrapped, we look at how the Reds’ league title winning squad has been decimated in just over a year, with most of the starting XI of the title winning team no longer with us, does is spell out the size of the job both the club and Andoni Iraola to get the Reds firing again?
And with the late breaking news, whilst the show was being recorded, what to make of links to Ismaila Sarr?
John Gibbons hosts Adam Smith, Kev Reilly and Craig Hannan.
Also in the show, John chats to Dom King about the challenges facing Liverpool in the transfer market.
