Hello, this is the game podcast from The Times and I'm Natalie Sawyer. Joining

Gregor Robertson and I today it is Allison Rud.

Allison, good afternoon to you. You are Liverpool champions. How does it feel now it's

finally confirmed? It feels nice and I just love the way people congratulate the fan so people I get a lot of

congratulations like I had something to do with it and it's always that way I remember when I was in Istanbul I had about I know 800

text from people saying well done you and in the end it goes to your head and you think yes I think it

probably was a lot to do with me. Well I thought there I'm

thinking I'm speaking to Allison who plays in goal no that's not right obviously

well that's an added that is just an added bonus isn't it? Are you still celebrating and how did you celebrate on

Thursday? Well I didn't really deep down want it to be that way I wanted

Liverpool to sort of actively be on the pitch when they won it by defeating

Man City. But it happened and I knew I knew I'd get a wave of emotion and I did I did shed a tear I then

immediately put up this enormous champions flag that I'd pre-ordered breaking all the

rules of superstition but I felt pretty secure and put that out.

It's enormous actually. And then weirdly I went to bed and dreamt about my granddad and it was a really intense dream.

My granddad's dead and I'd found, in the dream I found him and we were hugging and I woke up crying and I thought why have I

trend about my granddad and then I saw my flag it's in my bedroom window I saw it and I

realized it was because my granddad's the reason I'm a Liverpool fan so my deep

subconscious sort of went full circle and I was sort of talking to him about it in

some way and my my granddad took football very

seriously, he wasn't a joyful man and I'm not a joyful fan really. I'm not a

I don't sing at games and I don't scream and delight. I take it very seriously. I was a very serious child about football and so I haven't been jumping up and down and getting drunk drunk I've been sort of feeling nostalgic and happy but also a bit emotional as well.

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