Hello and

welcome to Anfield Ekse, the Liverpool Review Podcast, I'm Neil Jones and I have with me my new side kick,

Ian Doyle.

Hello. Standing in for Andy Kelly who's off Galavantin across the, across the globe or across the UK. Hello? new season? No. No, not at all. Excited at the forthcoming end of the season.

I am excited about the fact that once it begins it's that near the end.

Well that's what a lovely way to start the podcast.

Hopefully in a more upbeat mood is our guest today.

Back for the second helping of the local review podcast.

Chris Bascombe.

Always up to be to work back into the echo.

Always up be to be allowed back into the air.

Indeed, indeed. You're very lucky.

But Chris obviously from the Telegraph is here to look ahead to the season

and look back on some of the events of the last few weeks.

Chris, are you in a happier mood than doily about the fourth coming season?

I think so, yeah.

A bit more upbeat because I'm just glad when the football starts again really.

I think it's a bit of a grind and then you get through it so you try and polish these pre-season warm-up games

and find some meaning in what is ultimately meanless

games and then yeah there's always a lot of excitement that you know how is this season going

to pan out and I think personally I know that you might not think if you spend much time on social media but

Personally I think there's a lot to look forward to it. Yeah you were over in Germany recently for the for the Berlin game and the two Munich games as well the

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