THE easiest way to win a cup final is to be the better team. Even if you can’t be the better team on the pitch in the 90 or 120 minutes, you can have the better players to win a shoot-out. Despite what people tell you about it being a lottery. Manchester City...
AHEAD of Liverpool’s trip to Wembley to play Manchester City in the Capital One Cup we wondered what Liverpool needed to do to bring the trophy back to Merseyside. So we asked a fella who won two. Gerard Houllier was manager of Liverpool when we won the League...
ON Friday 26th February John Gibbons and Neil Atkinson bring you the day’s LFC news. There has been a Europa League draw and Liverpool got Manchester United. We’re coming round to it. Big games are great. Jurgen Klopp was asked about it too. He had a press...
THESE are the moments. Let’s not deny it to ourselves. Why the game got us. Why we became locked into its ways and wiles. We’re always in it for the prizes. Scaling peaks is what sport is all about. Don’t decry any summit. A challenge is a challenge. We have risen to...
SUNDAY’S Capital One Cup final feels a bit of a weird one. A one-off showpiece occasion, with Liverpool slight underdogs against the financial might of moneybags Manchester City. And yet, it lacks the edge of a clash with more traditional rivals; the existence...
IT’S the biggest seven days of the season and Neil Atkinson is joined by Rob Gutmann and John Gibbons to analyse where we are up to on day 2. Last night saw Liverpool progress to the last 16 of the Europa League. The lads analyse the performance, the set up and...
On Thursday 28th January Robbo and Gibbo are on hand to bring you the days LFC news. They talk about Liverpool’s opponents in the final of The Capital One Cup, Manchester City, including an injury to Kevin de Bruyne and quotes from Raheem Sterling. They also...
IT’S back again. The exuberance by virtue of another win. The restoration of hope, over-optimism and delusion. The revitalisation brought by a new manager who pleads with his players to have fun, and to have fun winning. And I’m having fun. Still smiling through...
WHAT a day. What a glorious day. A day that’s left husks of Liverpool fans wearily smiling in work today after celebrating the unlikely to the max ever since. Well that’s the scene in our office anyway. As anyone who listened to Friday’s show on CityTalk can attest, I...
THE best nights are the unexpected ones. This is what you are in it for. Turn up at the best team in the country after getting beat at home last time out, and absolutely whallop them. Joe Hart their best player and we still score four. Show them the way to go home....
‘The Swiss System’ Or A Super League?: TAW Unwrapped
This week’s ‘TAW Unwrapped’ takes a look at the revised Champions League format, how it played out last season and what to look forward to as the Reds begin their 25/26 European Cup campaign.
Neil Atkinson is joined by Beth Lindop, Adam Melia and Kieran Molyneux.