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

Hello everybody and welcome along to the Liverpool Echo's blood red

podcast happy St Patrick's Day everyone and who else could host the

podcast on today of all days but myself the namesake Patrick Smith it hasn't

been the greatest week should we say for the

mighty you Liverpool Football Club but let's reflect on that time then look forward

to the next couple of months shall we? As ever joining me today we have Ian Doyle

doiling how did you find Madrid? I used a map. No, it was okay. Yeah, it was warmer than it was here. Let's put it that way. So I was quite pleased with that. So the weather was good. I went to Lisbon as well for the youth

league and I also went to Bourn with last week so that's three games miles away all

one-nill defeats brilliant. Very exciting.

You're better than the map joke there, Dolly, come on, you're better than that.

Well, I was gonna do the sackpatrick's day because obviously the era won't, but that's been done you know what time is it now

but I've three so it's been done for about seven or eight hours now so not that I'm saying we should sack you.

I mean my working day isn't done yet doly is that I'm going to get a little letter in the poster of...

Depends how good this party is.

I'll storm out the pod halfway through, shall I?

Anyway, we've also got women's football expert, Beth,

Linda, alongside us.

Welcome back, Beth. Thank you very much. Quite glad to have a break from Liverpool Football Club this weekend. I've got to say after the last seven days, but I'm sure we'll get into all of that.

Yeah, absolutely.

It's a very, very timely break, I think, isn't it?

And rounding off this classic panel, I'm finding some consistency as a four, aren't we,

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