LIVERPOOL: CHARACTER WITNESS

LIVERPOOL: CHARACTER WITNESS

“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...
PODCAST: JAMIE CARRAGHER SPECIAL

PODCAST: JAMIE CARRAGHER SPECIAL

NEIL ATKINSON was joined by Rob Gutmann, John Gibbons and special guest Jamie Carragher, as they chat about Jamie’s career, the upcoming season and whether Liverpool can get to, or surpass, 84 points. Download Issue 10 of #TAW Monthly via iTunes or at...

JOE COLE’S SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION

Grim is the word. Liverpool-Swansea was grim. Unrelentingly, teeth-grindingly, appallingly grim. There was, this time, no leeway to claim the opposition were too direct or the officials blinkered. It was a simply, starkly, awful performance. The shambling figures on...

The Twenty Third Men – Part Two

PART one in this was about Steven Gerrard’s potential usefulness to Liverpool as a 23rd man in the squad. But Liverpool’s actual number 23 is potentially at a crossroads. Jamie Carragher’s spent the summer demonstrating what we thought – he’s a sharp observer of...

GERRARD, CARRA AND THE VERSATILITY PROBLEM

AMONG the seemingly positive phrases in football’s lexicon, ‘versatile’ is one many fans treat with trepidation. ‘Morale-boosting win’ is another – superficially good news but more pregnant with subtext than Demi Moore watching season four of The Wire. A...