by Josh Sexton | Oct 13, 2017 | Footie
THE biggest game of the season is upon us. That is an opinion, not a fact. Some, particularly those who have had what some would call the displeasure of growing up around Evertonians, will disagree — or agree that it may be classed as bigger but that doesn’t...
by Michael Nevin | Oct 13, 2017 | Footie
AM I going a bit soft, I thought this week, as I found myself glued, gushingly sympathetic and admiring of the life of Sir Bobby Charlton as brilliantly portrayed by the BBC? While watching, even my wife observed, “It’s a bit too United for me”, adding to her concerns...
by Rob Gutmann | Oct 12, 2017 | Footie
I’VE properly parked Liverpool FC for the past fortnight. The usually dreaded international break has provided welcome respite this time. It all feels a bit unnecessarily cruel at the moment and I’m just not enjoying it at all. Emerging from this mini hibernation...
by Paul Cope | Oct 11, 2017 | Footie
RIVALRY, according to the Oxford English dictionary, is defined as “competition for the same objective or for superiority in the same field”. The example it gives for the use of the word in context is “‘there always has been intense rivalry between the clubs”. Quite...
by Gareth Roberts | Oct 11, 2017 | Footie
IT’S usually a derogatory term used to shame the football fan whose support wanes when team performances do – the self-proclaimed fanatic that is not quite so keen when the going gets tough. At level eight of English football though, the term “fair weather fan” is...
by The Anfield Wrap | Oct 10, 2017 | Podcast, TAW Player, The Overview
After a disappointing September, Liverpool have six games before the next international break to get themselves their season back on track. Joining Rob Gutmann to pick through a run of games that feel like they could already make or break a season are Dan Morgan, Sean...
by Ben Johnson | Oct 9, 2017 | Footie
LAST week, after Newcastle, I would have paid close to five figures to have a couple of weeks break from watching the Mighty Reds. The international break, for once, seemed like something I could really get behind; not that I would spend it watching England or...
by Ben Johnson | Oct 2, 2017 | Footie
SO, what are you going to do now that we have all given up footie? I mean, it’s a bit of a blow and that, seen as we talk about it, think about it, tweet about it, sing about it and play it for probably 80 per cent of our miserable fucking lives but you know, we...
by Neil Atkinson | Oct 1, 2017 | Footie, Match Review
THERE are days when it just gnaws and gnaws and then suddenly kills. There have been existential masterpieces which cannot match the sheer profound sense of desolation that last 10 minutes had for Liverpool and the worldwide diaspora of supporters. Feeling both young...
by David Segar | Oct 1, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
ANOTHER day, another game and another 90 minutes where you couldn’t relax for a second. Coming a day after Tottenham comfortably won 4-0, and Manchester United comfortably won 4-0, Manchester City won away at Chelsea, and on the same day that Arsenal gained an easy...
