LIVERPOOL: GETTING HAMMERED

LIVERPOOL: GETTING HAMMERED

by | Sep 21, 2014 | Footie

SATURDAY was a bad day to invest in a bottle of Bailey’s. It tastes like milk, but it has the anaesthetic properties of a sledgehammer. Now let’s get things clear, not all in the Liverpool FC garden is rosy, but neither is all in the garden covered in horse shit. I...
LIVERPOOL: STRUGGLING TO FEEL THE VIBE

LIVERPOOL: STRUGGLING TO FEEL THE VIBE

by | Sep 20, 2014 | Footie

WHERE do you start after that? Well, I’ll begin with the mitigating circumstances. Sturridge is a massive, massive miss. As big a miss as the departed Suarez. Allen is out. Emre Can, though we know nothing of his aptitude, is out. Today, Skrtel was returning after a...

BROKEN

by | Apr 7, 2014 | Footie

I’VE gone. I’m a broken man. I wasn’t nervous before West Ham. I honestly wasn’t. In my head I’ve allocated different percentages of nerves to different games and I had West Ham at 10% panic. No (or little) sweat. Yes, there’s the Carroll...
THERE GOES THE FEAR AGAIN

THERE GOES THE FEAR AGAIN

by | Apr 7, 2014 | Footie

IT’S the music. It’s all about the music. Superstitions are all well and good, and I have my fair share of them, but when push comes to shove are we really going to miss out on the title if the regular chippy is shut? Are we really going to miss out on the title...

WEST HAM UNITED 1 LIVERPOOL 2

by | Apr 6, 2014 | Footie

THE gauntlet. I love the word “gauntlet”. I guess 2 perfect weekends in a row was too much to ask. Gauntlet thrown down. Tomorrow the response. — Craig Rimmer (@Craig_Rimmer) April 5, 2014 West Ham United felt like a gauntlet. Won six from the last...
CITYTALK – TWO TRIBES

CITYTALK – TWO TRIBES

by | Apr 4, 2014 | Footie, Podcast

NEIL ATKINSON is joined by John Gibbons, Jim Boardman, Rob Gutmann and Rory Smith of The Times to chat about the impending clash of footballing cultures between Brendan Rodgers’ Tricky Reds and Sam Allardyce’s ale-house knobheads. Music this week is from...