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This is the Blood Red podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking

points from Anfield. A very good afternoon and welcome to the Blood Red podcast. I'm your host, Richard Garnett,

with Rimmer Gone and Squires and Gorse both off today, Richard been forced to invest in some real

bona fide middle-aged talent. With that in mind, and I welcome the housewife's favourite Liverpool chief reporter. Ian Doyle, how you doing? Okay. I'm just looking at the screen that you look like me with her, basically. Well, this is, look what you could have won. Exactly, yeah. Yeah, basically that's it, yeah. It is the main message. How are you anyway? This is your first time hosting, is it not? Officially, yes. I did do one sort of a solo one in the COVID sort of area. It doesn't really count. I didn't have this nice studio to deal with. So I'm going to go, I'm going to say, full on Terry Wogan. and I not sure quite what I mean by that. Well, so you probably lost half the listeners who don't know where he was. This can't fall down a little we were born in the 1970s, kind of thing. Well, we're too many in the mid-40s and I'm being kind there. That conversation could rapidly go south. so yeah we'll, we'll try and keep it on brand.

It's raining cats and dogs there in Liverpool today, unfortunately.

So we'll try and bring a bit of sunshine to people's lives before the weekend kicks off.

A very important game against Chelsea on Saturday.

Saturday tea time. Would you call it tea time or dinner? What's your preference? T-time is Nick. Come on. Tea time. Tea time, yeah. We're up north, so it's tea time. Fair enough. Well, as I say, it's running cats and dogs. But speaking of cats, Liverpool are going to be without their Brazilian cat. That is seamless. That's very good. Very good. I enjoyed that. I had to pause why I thought of that.

Exactly.

You got there eventually. We'll be here all afternoon. Yeah. No Alison. Yeah. No Alison. And obviously you're up, I was going to say Melwood. That's no longer in use for those type of things. No. at the Axe Training Ground this morning

where our nice slot

gave an update on Allison and it wasn't really good news, was it? What's the latest? Well, it depends on what you regard as being good news. Once Allison gets that injury, we mentioned about this on Wednesday in the podcast, doesn't look good if a goalkeeper has to go off just shortly after half time when he's had to make a save. And we know from having watched it, you could tell while people go on, he, his name and he's made the same, but it's because he had to run back. And obviously, he's done his hamstring. Now, to what extent, Liverpool aren't really saying, but there was a report on Thursday nights from elsewhere that said he could be out

for six weeks possibly more but when slot was asked how long for Allison he didn't go that far

he kind of hinted that he may not be out for as long as that he hasn't ruled out a swift return

but the reality is kind of expect him to be out for what I would say, an extended period. I mean, he's not going to play against Chelsea. He's not going to go with Brazil to the Far East. They're playing South Korea and Japan. He wasn't named in the squad. That was on Wednesday, I think. And you won't be playing against Man United. That's the first game back after the international break.

So then you think, well, he's probably not going to go to Frankfurt either.

And suddenly you're going, well, let's see how things are going. But in terms of long term, again, Slot said he's not a doctor. He doesn't know whether this is the same kind of injury that he's picked up previously. but you have to be concerned that a goalkeeper who in his second season he was out for about two

two months i think to possibly but you have to be concerned that a goalkeeper who in his second season he was out for about two

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