IT was inevitable really, wasn’t it? How many times have Sky Sports built up to a big game by labelling it the most important human occurrence since the Renaissance, or Anthony Joshua’s last fight, only for it to peter out into a damp squib? ‘Red Monday’ was dull. It...
IT’S the day after an anti-climatic end to 17 days of highly-anticipated build-up to the visit of Manchester United to Anfield, as the Reds had to settle for a goalless draw. Jürgen Klopp would have left the least happy of the two managers, as Jose Mourinho clearly...
IT seems like months since we were last blessed with the presence of the Reds. It has been 16 days. Sixteen long days to ruminate, to worry about Manchester United, worry about Jose Mourinho, worry about Mourinho’s alehouse United, worry about the ale house, worry...
JOHN Aldridge insists Liverpool should be looking to exact revenge when Jose Mourinho’s side visit Anfield in just under a week’s time. United won both league games last season and, while the Reds conquered them in the Europa League, Jürgen Klopp will be looking to...
WE decided to ask Anfield Wrap contributors what they would do this summer with clubs that weren’t their own; how they would resurrect Aston Villa? How can Arsenal make the next step? Who would you hire and who would you fire? Each got to advise, be Director Of...
THERE’S a line about how Liverpool can be successful in the Premier League that goes like this: beat the lesser sides and you can win the thing. At the very least, it will go a long way to getting you top four. It’s a strategy that has served Arsenal well for years...
HE’S not the worst human being in the world, José Mourinho. There are more despicable characters. Don’t make me list them. Try saying to a fellow Liverpool fan that you wouldn’t have minded José managing our club at some point. A few souls will nod and smile...
DESPITE the initial enthusiasm brought by the arrival of Jürgen Klopp at Anfield, there remains a sense that this is a football season yet to ignite any real passion or excitement. This can be said not just of proceedings at Liverpool, but nationally too, as the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uC8w6X8oSo ARRIGO Sacchi called football “the most important of the unimportant things in life”. I love this quote, not only for its poetry but also for how it perfectly sums up how I feel about the game that has dominated...
by Dave Martinez ‘It appears to me that the dark has a lot more territory’ THE final scene of the phenomenal HBO drama True Detective sees Woody Harrelson’s character – Marty Hart – utter that sentence with a resigned, pessimistic tone as he looks up at...
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…
