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

Hello, welcome to the latest Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo and Joe Rimmer and I'm joined by Ian Doyle and Paul Gorse is back. Paul how are we?

Very good yeah good a good few weeks off the longest time I've ever had off I think certainly since I worked with the echo so

five weeks off in total missed a couple of games but still managed to see this one on

Saturday so we're looking for us getting stuck into it.

Well just tell us why you've been away.

Yeah, I mean not personally, have I?

So, being getting a lot of sleepless nights

and that's not worrying about if you're in a club's gonna line up

with a 423 on and a 433.

So, yeah, she's a life long red and she's only a few weeks old.

Very nice, very nice. Well, congratulations from all the blood red listeners I'm sure. Ian Doyle how are you?

I actually five weeks. It feels like about five months. Have you missed them? I've always missed

Paul you know this we're all friends together here on the

podcast especially when we lean in to try and be here properly. Yeah, so no

congratulations Paul. I guess even though you technically did next to nothing let's be

honest. Yeah I was very much the pebble in the

city again cloth and in the delivery suite. Intensity is your identity.

That's a great way to start. One of my favourite podcast starts of all time that.

So yeah, well, from good starts to poor starts in Doyle.

How how I feel?

I mean, you're, you're should you should be back in the back in the hosted

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