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Hello, it is the Weekender coming back from Tour Live as a one-off special and the rationale

is because we're doing what I don't want to do.

We're going to talk about 10 years of the Anfield rap in the room.

It's Gareth Roberts, John Gibbons and Craig Cannon.

Coming, we've got a little bit with Ian Maloney that John's chatted about,

and there should be something with me and Rory Smith that we haven't sorted out yet.

We are doing this show in a number of parts.

The first part is about the strangeness, the madness of it all.

The second, the third part will be us sort of reflecting on a few bits and pieces that didn't go the way in which we would have liked and the fifth part will be the privilege of getting to do it and how thankful we are for that.

But we will start off with the strangeness and the madness of it all and it's fair to say Gareth

as I sit here this is the ground on which I am the least comfortable which is looking

back over the Anfield rap for a wide variety of reasons, mostly guilt.

No one ever really anticipated all of this.

We were all working in other jobs back in 2011.

You left a job back in 2015 when we turned it into a full-time enterprise and I'd been made redundant.

John then later on left his work at that time to come and join us.

We probably did not expect at any stage to be sitting with 14 of us upstairs in an office

that's got a lovely view of the river.

No we definitely didn't and you know it's very different now to what it was then and all the way along I think

you know it's surprised as where it's gone you know my my personal journey around it was

you know I had various jobs that I wasn't particularly ticking the boxes for me in terms of what I wanted to do.

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