AT around 9.22pm on Tuesday September 20, both Jürgen Klopp and particularly Alex Inglethorpe would have been filled with a sense of pride. As 18-year-old Ovie Ejaria made his way onto the pitch at Derby County’s Pride Park for his first-team debut in the League...
LIVERPOOL have dominated for 85 minutes away from home. They’ve missed chance after chance. Your doom-mongering mate sends you a Whatsapp message saying “They’ll score now, you know”. It gets to stoppage time. You’ve been biting your...
WE’RE now firmly into the aftermath of Liverpool’s goalless draw at Southampton and opinion has been divided on the result and where it leaves the Reds. It’s not an awful result, in my opinion. You’re going to get games where it doesn’t...
IT’S a joyous time to be a Liverpool fan at the moment. On the whole, right from our league position to the overall health of the football club in general, everything is alright. It’s more than alright, in fact. Jürgen Klopp and his team have set the standards...
JÜRGEN Klopp has insisted that Philippe Coutinho is happy at Liverpool amid rumours linking him with a move to Barcelona. The Brazilian has five goals and five assists in 11 appearances so far for the Reds and has been a key part of their early season form. That early...
WOKE up on Sunday morning after 600 pints of Guinness with 99 problems. The previous nights 600 Guinness being one of them and the subsequent brain demagogue playing the headache drums another. Prising open my eyes I stumble across a photo on Twitter of two auld...
JÜRGEN KLOPP has given Liverpool gravitas, reach and respectability. In one fell swoop, his appointment as manager made the football world take notice. It was a statement that Liverpool meant business again — no longer a project and instead aiming to be a...
NOW that I have a weekly article on these pages you’ll soon realise that I’m a fan of quotes. Mainly quotes to motivate me and quotes to remind me that nothing we’re experiencing is very new at all. My uncle said to me a few nights ago...
YET another international break and heightened irritation at not seeing the Mighty Reds light up our weekend. Of course, we’ve been here before – being the third occasion already this season – but in the wake of Liverpool’s dazzling, free-scoring shows since the last...
IT exists to win trophies. A bastion of invincibility, the league its bread and butter. A holy trinity made up of the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors? They don’t come into it. We’re part of a family. People who can hold our heads up high and say,...
The third episode of season one of The Pub Crawlers Podcast was recorded in Nottingham, as Rob Gutmann hosts Steve Graves and Martin Fitzgerald to discuss the local pub scene, Indian restaurants, students, and more…
The Pub Crawlers Podcast represents a quest to find the very best authentic UK pubs, filmed on location inside some of the finest boozers across the UK and Ireland.
Well, sort of. It’s equally about friends having three to four pint-fuelled, quintessential pub conversations, on any subjects that damn well occur to them, in a range of outstanding boozers across the land. So, really, it’s as much about what we get up to in pubs as the pubs themselves.
The shows are presented by self-styled boozer connoisseur and long-time pub designer and owner, Rob Gutmann, who is on a mission to find the very best pubs in the UK and to define the essence of the ‘true’ pub.
Featuring a wide range of guests (mainly Rob’s mates), we’ll be visiting pubs the length and breadth of the country, bedding into the very best of them, and chatting about our lives lived in and around boozers.
The first season of the Pub Crawlers focuses on the North of England, taking in Chester, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, and even a brief foray to the north side of the Midlands in Nottingham.
Plug yourself in to the ongoing conversation as it disappears down all manner of tenuously pub-related worm holes, with your new mates at TPC. And you don’t need a pint to enjoy us, but it might help…
