ON February 21, 2015, Ken Meech, a 50-year-old sheet metal worker from Cleethorpes, travelled to London to attend the Barnet v Grimsby Town game. As a Mariners fan, Ken — along with the 968 other travelling Grimsby supporters — wasn’t going to miss this...
WHETHER it’s age or the work I do, I’ve become less emotionally attached to the football I watch as time has progressed. Being paid to sit in football stadiums and report on matches is a privilege. It’s the best part of the job because, for all of the talk in all of...
SECOND teams. The idea of supporting a second team has come up a few times for me lately and it’s interesting that many fans screw up their face at the very idea, adopting an expression akin to one they’d use if forced to wear a stranger’s underwear (I...
I WENT to Hamburg for my stag do last weekend. The things that happen in Hamburg; the things you see. A drunken mate, for example, managed to fall asleep on a live amplifier in a nightclub, such was the impact of Astra, the local lager. I think Motorhead’s Ace of...
FOOTBALL minus supporters is nothing so let’s begin with one, writes SIMON HUGHES. I bumped into an old friend last week — an Evertonian. He’s been a season ticket holder for as long as I’ve known him. That’s roughly a quarter of a century....
FIRST things first: I’m NOT a rugby fan (at least I wasn’t), writes MARK SPENCE. Make no bones about it, I love football way more than is probably healthy. From the first time I clapped eyes on Ian Rush’s weasel-like physique terrorising defences the length and...
IT’S MONDAY so there will be issues. Football always has issues on a Monday. And to make the issue look worse, someone will say it. Someone will write it. They will use that phrase. How about we stop? The opportunity is upon us. Let’s seize the chance and...
WORLD-FAMOUS psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud once wrote a book called The Interpretation of Dreams. I’ve leafed through it, but there are very few mentions of football. I had a dream on Friday night and being rather rubbish at being a bloke, I decided to tell...
Last season, Liverpool’s best title challenge in a generation helped fired-up fans find their voice at the match. And that’s something to be celebrated, writes MARTIN FITZGERALD “They want to see the team winning – let’s not kid ourselves, we’re a small country, we’re...
RUBIK’S Cube opponents, we used to trip up against a lot of Rubik’s Cube opponents. Those type of games and opposition that common-sense states we shouldn’t struggle with, except we do. Teams that come to Anfield and have the temerity to score first, then...
The Reds To Bring De Bruyne Home?: TAW Midweek Gutter Extra
With surprise reports linking soon to be ex-Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne with his boyhood club, Rob Gutmann is joined by John Gibbons, Josh Williams and Beth Lindop for a Midweek Extra Gutter Special to delve deeper into the reports as well as other transfer gossip concerning the Reds.
Also in the show John Gibbons chats to Professional Darts Player and Liverpool fan Stephen Bunting about the upcoming ‘Ladbrokes Anfield Open’ which is in aid of the LFC Foundation.
