‘Bedding In’ is a no-agenda chat based in the Liverpool Gin Distillery with this edition’s focus being the recent history of fan activism at Liverpool FC. Neil Atkinson, John Milburn, Steve Graves, Paul Cope, Gareth Roberts and Jay McKenna get stuck...
IF you’re a Liverpool fan in your 20s, it’s highly likely that Fernando Torres helped you fall in love with football. Loving footballers is a complicated thing. When I was growing up it was best confined to the bedrooms of teenagers, posters of their favourite stars...
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....
The following was originally written as a blog for The Times. Well, no, that’s not true. It was actually the middle section of a blog about something else written for The Times, and then brutally and ruthlessly cut down by heartless sub-editors. I felt it warranted a...
IF there’s one thing guaranteed to annoy football fans, it’s bullshit. And there’s a lot of it around. As the powers-that-be – the football authorities and the Government – have saw fit to idly stand by and let any old tycoon get their mitts on our beloved clubs, many...
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...
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‘Two Of Us’ – Lennon, McCartney And A Scouse Play: TAW Special
Andy Heaton joins Director Scot Williams, actors Barry Sloane and Jay Johnson alongside Watford Palace Theatre Director Steve Marmion to talk about ‘The Two Of Us’, a play based the last meeting of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.