by Ben Johnson | Oct 17, 2016 | Footie
IT seems like months since we were last blessed with the presence of the Reds. It has been 16 days. Sixteen long days to ruminate, to worry about Manchester United, worry about Jose Mourinho, worry about Mourinho’s alehouse United, worry about the ale house, worry...
by Ben Johnson | Oct 10, 2016 | Footie
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...
by Ben Johnson | Oct 3, 2016 | Footie
I WATCHED the game on Saturday in our house an hour after it had kicked off. I watched it with my four-year-old son. I didn’t have a drink. These three statements are quite important really, because it didn’t half alter my match-viewing experience. For starters, I had...
by Ben Johnson | Sep 26, 2016 | Footie
THE general consensus in the build-up to Saturday’s game was that this type of match, playing against shite at home, was the real litmus test for Jürgen’s Mighty Reds. Never mind going to Arsenal & Chelsea and winning, never mind outplaying Tottenham and having...
by Ben Johnson | Sep 19, 2016 | Footie
LEADERSHIP; it’s easy isn’t it? Means nothing doesn’t it? We have all heard the refrain of the washed up, over the hill, jobs for the boys brigade banging on about the players needing to sort it out for themselves — “once they cross that white line it’s out of...
by Ben Johnson | Sep 12, 2016 | Footie
THEY say a change is as good as a rest, and anyone who has had the misfortune of sitting in the old Main Stand can attest to the fact that it was in dire need of one or the other. The place had become a collective drain on the atmosphere and the team; a fortnightly...
by Ben Johnson | Sep 5, 2016 | Footie
HAVE you ever slammed a window? Seriously. Think about it, think long and hard. The only people who can and have slammed windows are: People who live in houses with timber windows. They can slam a window after they have been painted or before they have been painted...
by Ben Johnson | Aug 29, 2016 | Footie
THE dust settles, the Reds leave the Big Smoke with a point and we are all disappointed. Do me a favour and have a think about that for a minute. Last year, Tottenham finished third in a two-horse race and were being praised by all and sundry as the most exciting...
by Ben Johnson | Aug 22, 2016 | Footie
OH, the Reds. Where do we start with that one? What about the positives — shall we start with the positives? Did anyone see any positives? I’ve got to say this one hurt, and much more than it should have done. On the face of it, it is one of them games —...
by Ben Johnson | Aug 15, 2016 | Footie
WHEN I woke up on Sunday morning all I could think about was undies. I’d had a dream at some point during the night that I was in the Asda in Bootle and they had loads of boss undies on sale on some kind of bargain shelf by the entrance door. The mad bit was...