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....
THERE has been a lot of conjecture over what went wrong. I think it was more a question of what didn’t go right. Similar, but a subtle difference. Liverpool’s first league defeat in over four months does not mean the wheels automatically come off. But no-one does...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined by Rob Gutmann, John Gibbons and Adam Smith on a miserable, hungover Monday morning after a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Manchester United. Direct Link – PODCAST: BLUE MONDAY Podcast RSS feed. Get the TAW podcast on...
I DON’T do this well. Those of you familiar with my previous work for TAW might recall my reaction to the Chelsea loss last season when I came close to an Alan Partridge-style rampage to Dundee. I don’t do losing well generally. I’m the guy who will rage quit...
Muñoz, England & The World Cup Experience | The Breakfast Wrap
The Anfield Wrap’s live morning show, where we discuss the news that Liverpool are set to hijack Newcastle’s transfer of Victor Muñoz from Osasuna, after triggering his €40m euro release clause. John Gibbons hosts Kieo and Josh Sexton
