by Adam Smith | May 18, 2017 | Footie
WHEN it comes to stealing a living, few people pull it off as well as certain football pundits. I’m not talking about the ones who make predictions about particular football matches that end up going spectacularly wrong — that can happen to the best of us. I’m...
by The Anfield Wrap | Feb 15, 2017 | Podcast, TAW Player, Unwrapped
In this week’s show Rob Gutmann is joined by Melissa Reddy, Josh Sexton and Sam Walkerdine to have a look at the six teams battling for Champions League qualification. With 13 league games remaining, each team is assessed in terms of their run-in, squad size and...
by Rob Gutmann | Jan 12, 2016 | Footie
THE death of hope. The January-February requiem for a season. So often the case. The ground hog campaign. It’s a very familiar cycle. August’s boundless optimism, yielding to September’s anxiety, making way to an October-November of expectation ebb...
by Rob Gutmann | Aug 22, 2015 | Footie
ONCE upon a time, the Australian-born theorist, academic and journalist Germaine Greer confessed that, forced to name names, she would deffo shag Arsene Wenger. The truth remains that many of his own brethren wouldn’t do Arsene. They round on him at the turn of...
by Rob Gutmann | Jan 26, 2014 | Footie
“(the) long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again.” John Maynard Keynes...
