“SHOW them the way to go home. They’re tired and they want to go to bed. They’re only half a football team, Compared to the boys in Red.” Few stanzas as beautiful as that. Before a ball was kicked there was talk of City’s strength. On our...
“THERE used to be a football club over there,” said departing Tottenham Hotspur manager and newly-crowned UEFA cup winner, Keith Burkinshaw, as he left his job amid standard 1970-80s acrimony with his board of directors in May 1984. It’s a thoroughly...
THIS weeks Weekend Preview focusses on those setting the pace at the top of the table, expected or otherwise. Rob Gutmann is joined by Melissa Reddy, John Gibbons and Paul Senior to talk about top of the league Manchester City at Spurs, 4th place flyers Leicester...
A SHOW hosted by Rob Gutmann looking at games this weekend at Chelsea, Swansea, Southampton. Mourinho under pressure, Swansea suffering their first bad result and Southampton not yet looking like last year’s side. And what of Arsenal, Everton and Manchester...
LIVERPOOL Ladies were defeated 2-0 at the Academy Stadium by Manchester City Women in their final Continental Tyres Cup group game. Scouser and former Everton Ladies star Toni Duggan scored a first-half penalty for City, before Isabel Christianson sealed the victory...
THERE has been a collective loss of heads in the response to Raheem Sterling’s £49million move to Manchester City. Not at where the hell do Liverpool go from here after losing one of their brightest talents at the age of only 20, but with the idea that this is a...
THE most protracted and public of departures is finally sealed then. The briefing, the bullshit, the leaks, the accusations will be no more and Aidy Ward’s bull in a china shop approach to client representation will become Manchester City’s problem to deal with....
NOTHING for a fortnight and then two in two days? What’s going on Salmon? What happened to this ‘zen-like calm about everything’ that you were waffling on about yesterday? It’s okay. I’m still calm, still chilled, still absolutely at one...
“The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb – The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable EPISTEMOLOGY. Not a theory of skiing, annoying someone or drinking too much, but the study of knowledge, writes DAVID...
I GOT myself into one of those ‘mini-wars’ on Twitter the other day. The type where you spew 140 characters quickly but are then forced to regret at leisure. My ire concerned news of further ‘reforms’ to UEFA’s Financial Fair Play regs, and was fuelled by...
‘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.
