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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Allez Les Rouges: The player Liverpool cannot afford to rest and the single-mindedness of Klopp

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Peter Hooton is back with his Allez Les Rouges podcast, a little later than usual, but with good reason, as he has been busy promoting his excellent new book, The Boot Room Boys: The Unseen Story of Anfield's Conquering Heroes.And joined by Liverpool season-ticket holders Joe Blott, and Ian Byrne, of Fans Supporting Foodbanks, they kick off another enjoyable show by talking about the book’s launch event, where the last member of the fabled Boot Room, Roy Evans, had the packed-out crowd hanging on his every word.Times have changed, and not just at Liverpool, but the lads can see similarities in the single-mindedness of Jurgen Klopp and the great man who created the Boot Room.While there have been comparisons between Virgil van Dijk and Alan Hansen, Peter reckons the Dutchman could be for Klopp what Ron Yeats was for Bill Shankly.Liverpool are hoping the centre-back is fit for the second part of the double-header with Chelsea later today, but while Peter and Co believe the performance in the Carabao Cup defeat underlined why the Reds now have serious strength in depth, they feel there is one player - and not van Dijk - who simply needs to play every game.Xherdan Shaqiri’s display in midweek is hailed but the panel argue the Swiss winger is still more effective coming off the bench.Eden Hazard produced a devastating cameo coming on for Chelsea at Anfield on Wednesday night but Peter, Joe and Ian believe we will see the best of Liverpool’s front three this afternoon and that a match against his former club could be the one that sees Mohamed Salah’s season truly come alive.The podcast rounds off by highlighting the important work that is being done in the city by Fans Supporting Foodbanks, and a little bit about the group's special guest at last weekend’s win over Southampton, Jeremy Corbyn. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to another edition of Ailer Lou Rouge. I'm your host, Peter Hooten.

0:05.1

It's a bit later than usual in the week because we had the boot room boys, book launch on Thursday night.

0:11.2

So I'd like to welcome season ticket older Joe

0:14.1

Joe. That's right Peter. Yeah and Ian Bain, cop season ticket older

0:20.6

older. And greetings to all our listeners all over the world because we really appreciate

0:26.5

you listening in and the people keep on selling the numbers are fantastic you know and people coming up to you in the street saying

0:34.7

I listen to your pack it's like the lads having a talk in the pub and so I think that's

0:40.1

what it is the usual with a guest moll, Morrow and John Nicholson, Keith Culver, unavailable.

0:45.6

But let's start off, Joe with the boot room.

0:52.1

Roy Evans is absolutely different cash was me all the different stories about the boot room and

1:00.1

The book that's the book is really a celebration and I think what I was trying to say last night at the

1:07.3

launch was there.

1:08.3

It's a celebration really of loyalty amongst people who were all working in the same direction and that came from

1:15.4

Shankly when he first arrived at the club and said all I want from I'm not gonna

1:19.6

sack anyone all I want for from you it's dedication, loyalty and it was that

1:24.6

collective spirit I think they kept Liverpool at the top for three decades 60s

1:29.8

and 80s yeah it was great it was great to listen to I mean you're right to me. He used different classes,

1:35.2

you know. You think of the way managers now, you know, it's all media prompted, you know, he was just completely unscripted, just telling it as it was.

1:45.2

The loyalty came through.

1:47.2

I think the really fascinating things that stood out for me though, was the respect that Shankly gave the boot room boys to get on with

1:55.9

it yeah he didn't interfere he just said that's your job you go and do that the second

2:01.5

thing was was about he felt really humble getting in as the reserve team coach first of all

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