BEFORE a ball was kicked, I said Liverpool will win the league this season. As each game has passed — and Liverpool have responded to every obstacle put in front of them (Burnley aside) — I’m merely becoming more and more convinced. There are a number of...
I’VE been thinking about the 2007/08 season loads recently, mainly because I have had to like, but even still. For those of you who don’t know, one of the regular subscriber shows on TAW is ‘What We Call History’. It is basically a review of the games that make up a...
What We Call History focuses in-depth on a season from Liverpool Football Club’s past. Under the aegis of football folk historian Mike Nevin, we remember why Liverpool managers, players or crowds did the things they did, how it felt to be at games and what was...
What We Call History focuses in-depth on a season from Liverpool Football Club’s past. Under the aegis of football folk historian Mike Nevin, we remember why Liverpool managers, players or crowds did the things they did, how it felt to be at games and what was...
AUGUST 4, 2006: Rafa Benitez’s Reds are five days away from the first game of their season — a Champions League qualifier at Anfield against Maccabi Haifa. They’re in Germany to face a little known Bundesliga side called Mainz in their final pre-season friendly....
WE decided to ask TAW contributors what they would do this summer with clubs that weren’t their own; how they would resurrect the likes of Aston Villa, how Arsenal make the next step. Each got to advise, be Director Of Football or even take the reins at...
SO the season is over and we have all gone on holiday. Kind of. I stopped thinking about the Reds for about six hours on Saturday morning. I’m in pre-season mode now — wishing Wimbledon would hurry up and piss off and all them boring arse Tories would go...
Neil Atkinson hosts a Citytalk podcast which shifts through the gears. It starts with Chris Waugh from The Chronicle in Newcastle talking about Rafa Benitez staying at the club. How has he reached this decision? What will it mean about what happens next? Which of...
The Wrap Up is our daily subscriber update of the latest LFC news. On the glorious 25th May John Gibbons and Andy Heaton bring you the latest stories out of Anfield. Mario Gotze looks like he’s definitely staying at Bayern Munich, after Germany manager Joachim...
THERE is a lad in the Newcastle end who is going through absolute agony in the five minutes before the break. He catches my eye just after Newcastle put a good cross into the box but nothing comes of it. He dramatically half collapses, hangs around the neck of his...
