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

Very good afternoon and welcome to this Friday edition of the Blood Red podcast.

Brought to you as ever from the Liverpool Echoes officers here in the heart of Liverpool City Centre.

I am joined today by two of the greatest minds in Liverpool journalism.

I'm sure they won't mind me saying. I'm not being paid for this.

It is Paul Gorsd and Ian Doyle. Gorsdy, how are you doing today?

I'm good, yes. We are on a Friday without a press conference, so we're a little bit more relaxed than we normally would be. But yeah, good. Pressure off, feet up, maybe. That's it, yeah. A couple of donuts this afternoon. The shackles are off and we can play with freedom. So let's do that. What about yourself? Well, I like that. I like that. I'm all for expressing ourselves. I'll tell you what's not off, and that's our clothes, because it's absolutely freezing, because they appear to have not paid the heating bill. But tell you what is, after only some percentage of NordVPN's offer, I guess. Yes. You've ruined it for him, then. You're still on its thunder. Sorry, Rich. I'm sorry. You know, I mean, I spend all that time on a segue, but, you know, I'll let you off.

Obviously, I wasn, I spend all that time on a segue.

But, you know, I'll let you off.

Obviously, I wasn't there last week.

I was in Italy.

So I missed Liverpool's, I understand, impressive victory over Brighton in the FA Cup.

I did try and watch it in Italy on the phone.

But I ran into a bit of trouble because my TNT subscription wouldn't work because I didn't have a valid VPN, which I felt a bit embarrassed about because obviously we are sponsored

by NordVPN and that has prompted me to subscribe. Why I wasn't already subscribed? I don't

know. But we all know Nord is our sponsor. So a couple of benefits that you can get with

Nord these days. One of them, of course, is being able to watch sporting events, TV shows and

films, which aren't available in your region by switching to your virtual location to a

country which is showing the event.

For example, Italy.

I had to watch Intervie Uva instead, which was actually a good game to be fair.

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