LUIS SUAREZ: THANKS FOR THE LAUGHS

LUIS SUAREZ: THANKS FOR THE LAUGHS

AND so, at last, he’s gone. So too are the biting scandals, the racism debacle, the laborious diving debates and everything else that came with him. The Luis Suarez circus has moved on to Catalonia and he is now officially FC Barcelona’s ‘problem’. So what are we left...
LUIS SUAREZ: NOT OUR C*** ANY MORE

LUIS SUAREZ: NOT OUR C*** ANY MORE

“LUIS SUAREZ is a c*** – but he’s our c***.” I said that to an audience of 900 Liverpool fans when The Anfield Wrap put on a live show at the Hilton Hotel in Melbourne 12 months ago. Back then, Suarez was trying to engineer his way out of the club. Arsenal had put in...

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO FEEL?

TO thoroughly misquote John Lennon: Last night the wife said…”How do you feel about this whole Suarez thing then?” I’ve said it before but it bears repeating, my wife’s a Blue. A fanatical Blue. Her whole family is. She has an uncle who...
PODCAST – SHOULDERING ON

PODCAST – SHOULDERING ON

NEIL ATKINSON and John Gibbons were joined by Si Steers and and Karl Coppack in another TAW World Cup special with debate also inevitably focusing on Luis Suarez’s ban following his latest biting incident. Podcast also includes last week’s City Talk show....

WHY SHOULD LIVERPOOL SELL LUIS SUAREZ?

IT’S hard to add to the debate on Luis Suarez, if for no other reason than Neil Atkinson boxed it off with a brilliant article the other day. The only thing I’d add to Neil’s piece is that Liverpool should not sell Suarez. Why should they? If Real Madrid, for...

WHY DO PEOPLE WATCH SPORT?

By Martin Fitzgerald I watch sport because I want to see people do wonderful things. I watch sport because I want to see people being brilliant, being brilliant at sport. I’ve come a long way in this respect. Let me explain. I used to hate Steve Davis. Bloody hated...
Liverpool 4 Tottenham Hotspur 0

Liverpool 4 Tottenham Hotspur 0

WHEN the final whistle went in The Excelsior last night after City/Arsenal all I heard was people saying to each other: “It’s in our hands. It’s in our hands.” Today we grabbed it. Seized it. Knuckles white, grip tight. In our hands. We are Top...
LIVERPOOL ARE GOALS

LIVERPOOL ARE GOALS

LET’S start with the facts. 1988: Arguably our greatest side – 87 goals in 40 games. 1979: For me, the perfect Liverpool team – 85 goals in 42 games 1977: Our greatest season – 62 goals in 42 games Ladies and gentlemen, Liverpool currently sit...
AND WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP IN MAY?

AND WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP IN MAY?

TO be honest, I still haven’t got over Stoke away. Stoke was the season. It was 0-0s and defeats only prior to the current insanity. Stoke is Jon Walters, long throw-ins, getting smacked all over the park, always cold and that nervous walk back to the car across...

Karl Coppack: Ways To Be A Person

In February 1987 Liverpool played an everyday bog standard home game with Southampton.  As with many Liverpool/Soton games it didn’t have much to recommend it. Peter Shilton was in goal so the game was automatically relegated to an undercard as the Kop preferred...