By Si Steers THE SWISS are a nation famous for Cheese, Chocolate, and Banks and perhaps a little less well known for football, but it is a culturally rich and wealthy country that boasts a quirky and unique significance in world affairs. Switzerland is probably most...
I’M FIFTY. I may have mentioned this, I’ve had kind of an obsession about the fact for the last year. Those of you who have hit the figure will know what I’m talking about, those who haven’t will find out. Regardless. 50. More memories behind...
Steve Gerrard, Gerrard He slipped on his f***ing arse He gave it to Demba Ba Steve Gerrard, Gerrard. AND with that nifty little ditty, any conflicting feelings I had about England at this summer’s World Cup all but vanished. The last time that I actively wanted the...
ALMOST four years ago to the week, I wrote a blog post on my old Well Red blog entitled ‘Why I’m sick of being a Liverpool FC fan’. I wasn’t sick of the club – after a lifetime supporting it you can’t turn that off. It was just the actual being a match-going fan bit....
by Ian Salmon RIGHT. Put this off for long enough now, time to do it. Consider what follows an open letter of apology to Brendan Rodgers on behalf of, well, me basically but I’m sure that there were others with similar thoughts. It seems ridiculous now and stands to...
PAUL COPE said to me: “Listened to your Melbourne podcast. And I just thought, yeah. We should enjoy it. It should be great. It used to be. We get to go and do this and all we do is act like it ruins our day whereas people’d kill to do this every week. Well let’s...
By Karl Coppack SOMETIMES great players have graceless exits. Robbie Fowler ended his first tenure by being substituted at half time thanks to Didi Hamann being sent off at Sunderland, Fernando Torres skulked off with two goals at Molineux but without a smile and...
THERE is something wonderful about what happens when Hodgey speaks at length. He thinks he is being intelligent, impressive and occasionally cleverly dissembling. Then he gives something away that indicates why his entire footballing outlook is so fundamentally...
Here we are. A labour of love. Well, not love. Most definitely not love. But a labour. This is my friend Ben Johnson’s (@benjanijohnson on Twitter) Hodge File. It isn’t definitive. He only started maintaining it when he realised exactly what we were dealing with when...
By Karl Coppack THE WBA game highlighted some interesting issues regarding our ex-manager, their current one. The press kept mercifully quiet about him for once, odd given that he bloodied our nose there last season, and went back to smearing Luis Suarez”s...
The Reds To Bring De Bruyne Home?: TAW Midweek Gutter Extra
With surprise reports linking soon to be ex-Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne with his boyhood club, Rob Gutmann is joined by John Gibbons, Josh Williams and Beth Lindop for a Midweek Extra Gutter Special to delve deeper into the reports as well as other transfer gossip concerning the Reds.
Also in the show John Gibbons chats to Professional Darts Player and Liverpool fan Stephen Bunting about the upcoming ‘Ladbrokes Anfield Open’ which is in aid of the LFC Foundation.