PODCAST: ALL PARD OF THE DANCE

PODCAST: ALL PARD OF THE DANCE

NEIL ATKINSON, Gareth Roberts, Paul Cope and Steve Graves are in for this week’s podcast, reflecting on an encouraging victory over Crystal Palace as the Reds march on in the FA Cup. Like what we do? Buy us a pint! DIRECT LINK – All Pard Of the Dance...
MATCH REVIEW: CRYSTAL PALACE 1 LIVERPOOL 2

MATCH REVIEW: CRYSTAL PALACE 1 LIVERPOOL 2

THE stage was set, the watching Saturday night crowd ready. 1990s Alan Pardew and 1990s Crystal Palace back to the future at their 1990s ground to recreate a cup upset in the world’s oldest cup competition. They even recreated the programme from the 4-3 inside today’s...
PODCAST: THE BIG PUSH

PODCAST: THE BIG PUSH

NEIL ATKINSON is joined by Mike Nevin, Sean Rogers and the Liverpool Echo’s Andy Kelly as they digest a massive win against Spurs and look towards a tricky FA Cup tie away at Crystal Palace. Music this week is – Dave Owen – Billy Dave is a country...
FA CUP: LIVERPOOL’S GHOSTS ARE BACK

FA CUP: LIVERPOOL’S GHOSTS ARE BACK

I WAS OK about this whole Crystal Palace thing until flicking through Twitter this morning. Then I started to get uncomfortable and began shifting uneasily in my seat. Namely this: A gnome, Tenerife, breaking into a school and beef chow mein: the story of Palace 4-3...
LIVERPOOL: IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED

LIVERPOOL: IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED

IF at first, you don’t succeed… I got changed in a bog last night. Student/truck driver behaviour (delete as appropriate) for a supposedly urbane man of 47 years. The much-improved services at Rivington North — a hop, skip and a jump from the Macron/...
MATCH REVIEW: BOLTON 1 LIVERPOOL 2

MATCH REVIEW: BOLTON 1 LIVERPOOL 2

WELL we got there in the end. History is written by the winners and stories are changed reflecting results. With five minutes to go in normal time  I was wondering how such a talented squad performing so well couldn’t manage a goal in 175 minutes against a...
MATCH REVIEW: LIVERPOOL 0 BOLTON 0

MATCH REVIEW: LIVERPOOL 0 BOLTON 0

NEIL writes the match reports. Neil or Gareth or Gibbo. But Gibbo’s living the life fantastic in Utah and Neil and Gareth are on a stag do, so they asked for volunteers and here we are. Not long after I said I’d do it a mate of mine offered me his tickets....
AFC WIMBLEDON 1 LIVERPOOL 2

AFC WIMBLEDON 1 LIVERPOOL 2

WE left for Wimbledon at 2pm on Monday. Which is a time most people are normally in work. Lots of Liverpool fans will have had to try to ask for time off, bully workmates into swapping shifts or talk their boss into letting them leave early on what is traditionally...
AFC WIMBLEDON v LIVERPOOL: THE FA CUP GHOSTS OF 1988

AFC WIMBLEDON v LIVERPOOL: THE FA CUP GHOSTS OF 1988

I KNOW that, technically, it’s a different club. I know that, technically, the Wimbledon of Fashanu and Jones, of prototype geezerdom and unbridled thuggery, came to a messy end in 2004 when it relocated to the exotic climes of Milton Keynes and became known as MK...