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 Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, I'm Guy Clark and well, whilst we're on the break from football

due to the situation we of course all find ourselves in, every so often we'll be trying to sprinkle in a chat with someone from within the game of a Liverpool persuasion.

Coming up here on Blood Red then, we'll be finding out what the break in play has been like to deal with from a manager's perspective what he makes of

Yurgenclops Reds as well as what makes them such a formidable unit.

Well joining us to do all that and more is a man who's Wigan Athletic

Sided recorded impressive away wins at both of the top two in the championship

both Leeds United and West Bromic Albion prior to football being suspended.

It's a pleasure to welcome Paul Cook to Blood Red. First things first Paul, thanks a lot for joining us. How are you keeping?

Yeah, good, very good. Thank you. Obviously, in one is real difficult times for people I think everybody's having to adapt to a different way of life

The quicker you do that the better the suppose

Obviously football's been postponed now. I think it's what 10 days seems like an absolute lifetime doesn't it?

Yeah it does and as each day goes by I think it brings home you know a lot more of you know what's going on in the country the world and everywhere else you know I

think football and football people in general we've got to be very careful

and we conduct ourselves because you know football certainly isn't the priority that some people seem to want an intent on making

a feel.

No, obviously it sort of makes you think back to that that legendary quote from Bill Shankly about

football being a matter of life and death but

actually at a time like this it really sort of highlights actually how severe a

situation we are in.

Well yeah without a doubt I think if you take the context of you know how Bill was

speaking in them days I think when there's whale peace and you know there's no

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