YOU go to Old Trafford. You don’t play well. They don’t play well. They win. I think I’ve seen this film before. I’ve seen games decided by set pieces. I’ve seen blunt sides overwhelmed by the occasion. I’ve seen vaguely...
A REAL strange game. Where we create more but still look toothless. Where we are part unlucky but mostly clueless. Where things could have been much different, but you still wonder what the plan is. At both ends. Tough month for the manager ahead. Simon Mignolet 5...
THIS one. The one I stopped going to from 2002 til 2014. A decade and a bit in which we stormed the citadel four times (two Danny Murphys, the 4-1 one, and the 3-0 one). I went back for the first time for a league game there last December and we were flukily thrashed...
TO this day, the most piercing single roar I’ve heard at a football match came when Frank Stapleton sent the Stretford End into raptures with a 52nd-minute winner against Liverpool in September 1983. It was my first visit to Old Trafford and is a memory I always...
ARRIVING together wearing tattered boots and faded shorts, two talented siblings immediately draw the eye. They are sporting football shirts which are in complete contrast to the rest of their gear — crisp and clean, while also being in complete contrast with...
THIS takes me back to February 1986. I’m walking to the ground with my mate Chee on our way to watch Liverpool and Manchester United play out a 1-1 draw. It was the day of the gas attack thing, and it was all about to kick off in the Main Stand car park, but at the...
JUST when you thought Liverpool were going to come out swinging, they throw the towel in. Just when you thought the Reds were going to puff out their chests and swagger around the country taking on all comers, they cowered in the corner and let the East Enders...
THE facts are stark enough. Before the European Cup final, one of the showpieces of world football competition, at the ageing Heysel Stadium in Brussels, on the night of May 29, 1985, Liverpool and Juventius fans clashed in one of the most serious outbreaks of...
DON’T PANIC. I’m thinking the big friendly letters on the front of ‘The Book’ in Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (the radio version not the bloody awful film) as opposed to Corporal Jones’ catchphrase in Dad’s Army....
The Race For Champions League Football | TAW Midweek Extra
As the season runs down and the margins get thinner, we get into the scramble for those last Champions League spots — who’s got something left, who’s running on fumes, and what the fixtures might still have to say about it, all in this Midweek Extra / Overview special.
Rob Gutmann is joined by John Gibbons, Beth Lindop Gregg Munikwa.
