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 to a special Liverpool Blood Red Podcast with me Ian Doyle. Hello, It's Hello Ian. How are you?

Slightly jazes.

Despite the fact we haven't been doing double sessions,

just getting around in this heat and humidity

is... It's been a long day,'t it from what time did we have to leave

Bangkok this morning we left the hotel at seven o'clock this morning and it's now

nearly eight o'clock at night in Singapore which is a completely different country.

Yeah, yeah. So it has been one of those has it.

I know we were on different flights but I think I think Singapore had employed the Manchester

airport baggage handlers because I've never waited so

long for a suitcase to turn up.

But yes, finally we're here now and twice it's a lovely place Singapore. I'm looking forward to the second leg of it hopefully I know the first leg wasn't successful in terms of the result

but I think everything else around it certainly ticked all the boxes?

Yeah, we'll start with that. I mean, the club, the team, the players, they got a tremendous

reception when they landed in Bangkok on Sunday. And it kind of carried on from there didn't it you know wherever we went

There's always Liverpool fans knocking around wearing shirts and of course

We're gonna get out the way now they all recognized you and you were forever getting your pictures taken as well so that

was a first sign that you know James couldn't go anywhere without being stopped so there's quite a few

little bit of the fans out in Bangkok and looking at the game itself I mean obviously back home

I've seen some of the headlines and some of the stories it's like oh no what a

you want a nightmare for Liverpool losing four n nil to match.

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