“Just because you are a character doesn’t mean that you have character.” Winston Wolfe, Pulp Fiction, 1994 ONE of my favourite quotes from one of my all-time favourite films. That Pulp Fiction is now both old enough to have a bevvie in even the most...
AFTER Liverpool’s terrific 2-1 home victory against Manchester City a somewhat hoarse Neil Atkinson is joined on this week’s podcast by Steve Graves, Jay McKenna and Phil Blundell to talk about how good Joe Allen was and how odd Manchester City...
GREAT games. To be involved in great games is a marvellous thing. Only good teams tend to get themselves in great games. Liverpool have been involved in two great games against Chelsea and one against Spurs recently. This, the fourth, is arguably the greatest and...
“He’s probably not thinking so much. Sometimes you can over-think. What he’s doing now is instinctive and he’s got back to doing what he does best.” THAT was Brendan Rodgers talking about Simon Mignolet. It could easily describe Rodgers himself. Until the game at...
NEIL ATKINSON was joined by Ian Salmon and Steve Graves following a potentially season-defining victory for Liverpool against Southampton. Like what we do? Buy us a pint! DIRECT LINK – The Little Magician Podcast RSS feed. Get the TAW podcast on iTunes....
WHEN Liverpool’s premature Champions League departure was quickly followed by a heavy defeat to Manchester United, plenty was said and written about the Reds’ worrying slide and how to fix it, writes SAM DRURY. I tried to stick to just thinking about it;...
THERE are plenty of things you can justifiably criticise Brendan Rodgers for, as there are plenty of things you can criticise any manager for — even the very best and the most successful. Every manager buys bad players. Every manager makes the wrong decision....
WITH February looming, Liverpool sit in eighth place in the Premier League table. They are out of the Champions League, face a tricky fourth round replay at Bolton in the FA Cup next week and were eliminated by Jose Mourinho’s latest band of not so merry men in the...
IT’S an hour until Liverpool play Chelsea in the League Cup semi-final first leg at Anfield. The team-sheets have just been plastered all over Twitter, writes SAM WILLIAMS. Teamsheets are boring. In this age of social media and 24-hour rolling news, they...
I’M obsessed with structures. You never want to work with me. I’ll structure you to death, put all sorts of things around you. However, once we have those structures, let’s go crazy. Structures empower. They encourage creativity, guarding against...
