After Liverpool’s draw against Brentford was met with the reaction of a defeat, why is it that a point now feels like none for The Reds? DRAWS feel like defeats these days. I know they shouldn’t, and the fact that they do shows the level of expectation...
After Pep Guardiola’s comments caused a fallout among Manchester City fans, was their manager missing the point or bang on the money? “INTERPRETATION is interpretation. “I’m not going to apologise for what I said. I’m surprised about what happened with...
Chants from some Leeds United and Liverpool fans put a dampener on Sunday, but should the media do more to shine a light on certain songs? I HAD never been to Elland Road. I’ve gone past it countless times but never been searched and allowed access to the...
With The Anfield Wrap celebrating its 10th anniversary, Karl Coppack looks back, looks forward and wonders what’s next for Liverpool. Are The Reds still on the up? “I’LL ask Andy Heaton for you.” In 2011 I was a writer without a home. My...
While Liverpool supporters may feel that the 1-1 draw with Chelsea was two points dropped, The Reds can learn a lesson from the match… I’VE always been against point budgeting. That process where you look at the next five games and think ‘12 points will...
After Terry McDermott was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia, Karl Coppack tells us about the man, the player and the Liverpool legend… IN 2006, I became dangerously unwell. Without knowing it I’d somehow managed to go 38 years with a congenital brain...
Karl Coppack on what it meant to be within the away fans at Carrow Road for the first game of the season to watch Norwich City 0 Liverpool 3… THERE was a moment in 79th minute on Saturday when Trent Alexander-Arnold trotted over to take a corner. He took...
With a new Premier League season closing in, Karl Coppack assess the challenge that lies ahead for Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool in 2021-22… I’VE been thinking about Morhad Amdouni. If you missed it, Amdouni is the French Olympic marathon runner who knocked...
After seeing Christian Eriksen collapse on the pitch, Josh Sexton raises questions about the importance of player welfare in sport today… HELPLESSNESS has been a theme for much of the last year and a half. Rarely has that feeling of helplessness been...
While football makes us question our faith at times, Josh Sexton writes that Alisson Becker showed us that we can’t underestimate its impact… I WROTE a column earlier this season about football, faith and religion. So much of it resonated yesterday...
The third episode of season one of The Pub Crawlers Podcast was recorded in Nottingham, as Rob Gutmann hosts Steve Graves and Martin Fitzgerald to discuss the local pub scene, Indian restaurants, students, 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…
