This is the Ali La Rouge Podcast on the Blood Red Channel, bringing you the view from the

terraces at Liverpool FC. You're listening to Ali La Rouge and I'm delighted to be joined today by John Nicholson and Stephen

Monaghan after their pre-season break and author and journalist Brian Reed who's no strangers of the show. So now the euros are a

distant memory and now we get back to the real football so Brian are you in the Shankly camp when he said to Roger Hunt

after winning the World Cup I won't do the accents? Well done son.

Well done son but we've got more important things to do now.

Totally, yeah. I mean, I think I've had a good of some in 66 in the Charity Shields

when Hunt and Wilson are going around with the Whale Cup,

but I said, nice one, that's get off,

there's a game starting now, you know.

It's a distraction, isn't it?

I mean, I've got to be honest with you.

I enjoyed a lot of the football in it,

but I think most football fans

are club fans really aren't we you know it's our club that we love even if you're

passionate about your country you know I mean and you can't waste. It's like an annual cycle in the body and it.

You feel it coming to August now, you're getting excited, you're feeling summers out the way.

It's nice to have a bit of a break, I think, between the euros and the start of the season but we're back into preseason

families so there isn't a break.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. John you famously at the Scottish flag when England played Scotland because of your Scottish descent

but are you in the Shankly camp?

Oh definitely yeah I sort of enjoyed it in the end watching what

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