A TYPICAL Friday which began – as always – with tea and chocolate biscuits. They must be opened by the same people each week and the gaffer has first go and his packet must have two chocolate sides together like a sandwich. It is just part of the amazing...
I MENTIONED in conversation on Monday night that the irony of all this boundless positivity that I post here is that I am — and everybody that actually knows me will happily attest to this fact — a thoroughly miserable get. A Leonard Cohen and Joy Division...
BY now I’m sure you’ve read Neil Atkinson’s terrific piece on midfield maestro and genuine Welshman Joe Allen. In it, Neil mentions that Allen divides opinion, and in the interest of backing that up, here’s the other side. If you are a...
EVERYBODY talks about 1988. They’re right to. It was a joyous time to be a Red. The double was still in the memory and we made two enormous signings the previous summer to go alongside John Aldridge and the curious Irish-Scottish crossbreed of Ray Houghton, who...
ON one of our shows recently, after the Crystal Palace cup game, Steve Graves said that Joe Allen ‘couldn’t Joe Allen himself out of being lightly thought of by many at Anfield’. If Mignolet or Balotelli have a run of nine out of 10 games there will...
“He’s probably not thinking so much. Sometimes you can over-think. What he’s doing now is instinctive and he’s got back to doing what he does best.” THAT was Brendan Rodgers talking about Simon Mignolet. It could easily describe Rodgers himself. Until the game at...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined by Ian Salmon and Steve Graves following a potentially season-defining victory for Liverpool against Southampton. Like what we do? Buy us a pint! DIRECT LINK – The Little Magician Podcast RSS feed. Get the TAW podcast on iTunes....
SIMON Mignolet almost handled the ball outside his penalty area against Southampton. If you’d suggested such a thing a few weeks ago then you’d have been laughed out of town. One of the most enjoyable things about being a Liverpool supporter for me is the concept of...
WALKING around the ground in the teeming rain, the absolute teeming fucking rain, after the game there was this enormous buzz of the Red support leaving the ground, songs echoing around, smiles wide. The Reds are coming up the hill, clambering up, dust smeared faces,...
IT’S a debate that has been going on for years. How do we reclaim The Kop? How do we bring back the famous atmosphere that made Anfield different, that made it special and so revered? It’s a debate that needs to be had. Yet it’s a debate that always...
