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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

πŸ”΄ Blood Red Club EXCLUSIVE: Phil Thompson on Gerard Houllier legacy and returning Liverpool to European glory

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.4 β€’ 1000 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Our second exclusive podcast for Blood Red Club members is a special with former Liverpool assistant manager Phil Thompson. β€˜Thommo’, who was already an Anfield legend after his incredible playing career with the Reds, speaks to the Liverpool ECHO's LFC correspondent Paul Gorst about the historic 2000-01 treble-winning campaign, 20 years on, and the legacy left by the late, great Gerard Houllier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

0:08.0

Hello and welcome to the latest exclusive Blood Red Club podcast. I'm Guy Clark. Thanks for taking the time. the in which the Reds won the Worthington Cup,

0:22.6

F.A. Cup and U.A. Cup, and U.S.

0:24.2

we take a look back on the campaign.

0:26.8

In conversation with the Echos Liverpool Correspondent, Paul Gossed,

0:30.4

Hulier's assistant manager, Phil Thompson, shares his memories of the season as the

0:35.0

Reds ended a six-year domestic trophy drought and won a first European trophy since 1984 in

0:41.5

Dortmund with a few tales to share along the way.

0:45.0

The Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo.

0:48.0

Thanks a lot for your time this afternoon.

0:51.0

I just want to start with the League Cup and then the

0:54.3

FA Cup, the European and then a little bit of Gerald towards the end. So the League Cup

1:00.4

it was just looking at the results a couple of hours ago it was a bit of a roller coch store

1:04.7

wasn't it with the real battle against Chelsea going to extra time and then hammer and stoke 8-0 and I get

1:10.8

beat at Palace and then the cop rem remind and Clinton Morrison the score I mean

1:14.5

but what were your memories of that first run to Cardiff? Well the run was obviously

1:20.5

when it starts off it's sort of low-key you make changes not as many as seems to happen now

1:28.3

But I do remember that stroke game

1:31.6

More importantly and I think it was just a little bit of a rocky time that we had things

1:38.0

have going our way and I think we had Peggy Arfexted in goal.

1:43.4

And I can remember at nil.

1:46.6

They actually went through

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