THE Reds are mustard again. There was a purity to the occasion, a purity to the two performances. A reminder what this thing is. Two sets of lads mostly in their 20s being bold and brave, and playing, and playing, and playing. Two teams running themselves into the...
ALRIGHT gang. Had the winter off from awarding arbitrary scores to things, didn’t I? Mid-season break and that. Full of it now though. Looking through my eyes is like yer man off Beautiful Mind looking at a blackboard, numbers bouncing round all over the gaff. Like as...
IT must be a strange lot being a professional footballer. Particularly at the high end. I’m always intrigued to know what they really mean and think when they sign for new teams and ubiquitously proclaim that they want “to win trophies and titles” in their...
THERE are many perfect football matches. Football matches where you wouldn’t change a thing, not a jot. Football matches you’d relive at the drop of a hat, have every detail be the same. The groundhog match. Some of those matches are because The Reds are...
HAPPY New Year, everyone! And isn’t it just the happiest of New Years when you go to play Burnley just 48 hours after a hard-fought win against Leicester, make seven changes, including missing probably your two best players, don’t play all that well and yet still come...
ANOTHER three points on the road sees The Reds stride into 2018 — as The Anfield Wrap’s Mike Nevin brilliantly once said — “handily placed”. In an almost complete reverse of 2016-17, Liverpool seem to be regaining momentum after a...
I THINK we’ve got to see this one as a bit of a free hit. These games, coming tumbling on top of each other as they do, can become lotteries. Liverpool have done well enough over this festive programme — wins over Bournemouth, Swansea and Leicester and the draw...
WHAT winning feels like. Soul soaring. Heart pounding. Vaguely nauseous. Made of fists, made of hips, made of fuck off. Just fuck off. It should always feel like that but so often it doesn’t. A combination between great football and a great scrap. Tonight these...
MO, mo, mo he’s magic, yer know. For all the grief that comes his way, Liverpool fans owe Jose Mourinho a debt of immense gratitude. With Mourinho’s recent hypocritical cryarsing about Manchester City and Liverpool spending money, the man who has spent more money than...
THAT win should not be underestimated at any cost. The thought of going to Burnley in two days absolutely needing something was enough to put you off the idea of seeing in a New Year altogether. But The Reds shook off an early setback, displaying tons of character, to...
The Pub Crawlers Podcast: What’s The Best Pub In Manchester? (S1E10)
The 10th episode of season one of The Pub Crawlers Podcast was recorded at The Marble Arch Inn in Manchester, as Rob Gutmann hosts Suzanne Henderson and Fenner Pearson to discuss chance meetings with Mark E. Smith and Debbie Harry, plus the invention of the Bloody Mary and more…
The Pub Crawlers Podcast represents a quest to find the very best authentic UK pubs, filmed on location inside some of the finest boozers across the UK and Ireland.
Well, sort of. It’s equally about friends having three to four pint-fuelled, quintessential pub conversations, on any subjects that damn well occur to them, in a range of outstanding boozers across the land. So, really, it’s as much about what we get up to in pubs as the pubs themselves.
The shows are presented by self-styled boozer connoisseur and long-time pub designer and owner, Rob Gutmann, who is on a mission to find the very best pubs in the UK and to define the essence of the ‘true’ pub.
Featuring a wide range of guests (mainly Rob’s mates), we’ll be visiting pubs the length and breadth of the country, bedding into the very best of them, and chatting about our lives lived in and around boozers.
The first season of the Pub Crawlers focuses on the North of England, taking in Chester, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, and even a brief foray to the north side of the Midlands in Nottingham.
Plug yourself in to the ongoing conversation as it disappears down all manner of tenuously pub-related worm holes, with your new mates at TPC. And you don’t need a pint to enjoy us, but it might help…