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

Hello and welcome to the latest episodes of the Blood Red podcast from the Liverpool Echo,

I'm Beth Lindoff, and with Joe Rimmer

sideline for today, I've been subbed in as your host.

I did ask, as it's my first time in the hosting hot seat

to be joined by two of the echoes

finest unfortunately Ian Doyle and Tonkaville are unavailable so Paul Gors and

Theos Guwies are joining me how are you though? Yeah I'm good not too bad dinner at the trading ground today lots of

traffic on the roads a few crashes so it's taking a while to get in but here raring to go now

not quite as long as it took Goresi to get back from Bormeth on Wednesday.

I was upset us yeah a leak up front too

for a leak up discussion, I guess,

after you've buried us there.

We're honest the long it was.

Oh, God, I mean, I don't like to sound like dirty because dirty loves a little moment about travel woes, but train back from Bormuth to London was cancelled. So we have to get a taxi to Southampton and then our team was cancelled again so we have to get a taxi to

Manchester, go off at Wolves, run on and then finally got on.

So there's a long day but Liverpool won won the new show as well as that is the main thing.

And we're talking about a passage to the last aid.

All worth it in the end. Well before we get stuck into all things Carapel Cup, I am going to do a cheeky little plug,

because my primary role is a women's football writer here at the Liberal Echo,

and Reach PLC have launched a new women's football

monthly magazine called Women's Football News,

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