Behind Enemy Lines: “A MAGICAL Cup Run” | Garry Birtles on Forest, Clough & European Miracles
Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast
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4.4 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Behind Enemy Lines podcast on the Blood Red Channel, bringing you the |
| 0:06.9 | inside track on Liverpool FC's next opponents. |
| 0:10.4 | It's Behind Enemy Lines on the Blood Red Channel, courtesy of the Liverpool Echo. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm Jay Clark. Welcome along. A trip to the city ground awaits for |
| 0:21.0 | Liverpool as Yertenclop Eise a return to Wembley for the |
| 0:24.3 | FA Cup semi-finals. Nottingham Forest v Liverpool a fixture for the ages |
| 0:29.8 | certainly for those of a certain vintage in the late 70s the two clubs |
| 0:34.4 | rivals on both the domestic and European fronts and joining us to look ahead to |
| 0:39.2 | Sunday's FA Cup Clash a pleasure to welcome former Forrest forward Gary Bertels and Gary I suppose it's pretty |
| 0:46.2 | fitting that you're joining us for behind enemy lines given I suppose back when you were breaking |
| 0:51.0 | through at Forrest you were certainly cast in the role of a |
| 0:54.5 | villain for Liverpool fans yeah I certainly was my debut on the Saturday against |
| 0:59.6 | Arsenal then Mr Clove said son you're the first name on the team sheet for the |
| 1:05.7 | Liverpool game and you think, well, is he winding me up because he was very good at |
| 1:08.8 | doing that? And sure enough I was on there and being born and bred knotting him. |
| 1:13.2 | It was just an absolute, you know, honor to be in that team. |
| 1:17.8 | They used to go in the trend trend end with my dad when I was a kid and I didn't score against Arsenal so the Liverpool test was going to be you know massive |
| 1:26.0 | because they were the best team in in world football |
| 1:28.0 | you know |
| 1:30.0 | domestically by a country mile I think they beat Spurs 7-1 before they played us in the first leg. |
| 1:37.0 | And everybody thought we'd be easy pickings, but we were resilient. And I got a tap in early in the first half and yeah had a hand in the second one and that's where I said you know to Tomo because he said to me at one nearly said one won't be enough to take back to |
| 1:54.4 | Anfield and when we scored the second I shouldn't have said it because I was a whipper snapper you |
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