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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Champions League final chances, Real Madrid’s darks arts, and the story of Allez Allez Allez

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Two days.Just two days until Liverpool contest their eighth European Cup final.And what better way to get in the mood for the massive match with Real Madrid by listening to our latest Allez Les Rouges podcast?Our host Peter Hooton is joined by Kieth Culvin, Ste Monaghan, and two Nicolsons, John and Danny, for a pre-Champions League final special.The lads relive the Reds’ past final glories and outline why the ‘Holy Grail’ of European football means more to Liverpool and their supporters than to other clubs.They are in no doubt that Jurgen Klopp’s side can claim the club’s sixth European Cup on Saturday – especially give they reckon there could be up to 40,000 Reds in the stands – but they also warn of Madrid’s big-game experience and their use of the ‘dark arts’.The lads praise the club for helping set up the BOSS Night event that will take place in the aptly-named Shevchenko Park before the match as well as discussing the origins of the chant that has soundtracked Liverpool’s glorious march to the final – Allez Allez Allez.Big Red Jamie Webster set the song to music and his brilliant version can be downloaded from ITunes and the Google Play store. Profits go to the Liverpool-based An Hour for Others charity.Just like this podcast – it’s a must-listen.Enjoy.  For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Ali La Rouge Champions League Final Special or should that be the European Cup final special.

0:06.0

I'm joined by Keith Covene, regular guest and Steve Monaghan regular guest and John Nicholson and Danny Nicholson two generations of the same family.

0:17.0

Excitement is rising for Sati's match and you can't really put into words what it means for Liverpool FC to be in their eighth

0:25.3

that eighth European Cup final and remarkably two teams with so much European pedigree

0:32.0

we've only ever played them five times and we are

0:35.6

winning three two on a heads to head but if you look at certain websites they've got

0:40.9

it down as two two as we all know football didn't exist in 1981 and

0:45.9

obviously some people on certain websites didn't think it existed either. So if

0:50.9

you look at the head-to. 1981, it was obviously Liverpool's triumph in Paris with the Kennedy goal.

0:58.0

And then in 2009 we beat them 5 nil on aggregates that was 1 nil towards in Madrid and 4 nil to

1:07.6

Liverpool and that field and then in 2014 the Brendan Rogers team everyone's a bit disappointed with the with the results in that because they won't 4-0 on aggregate.

1:18.0

So Keith start with you what does it mean to be in the eighth European Cup Champions League

1:26.7

final? Do you mean European Cup fan? It means everything done and obviously you know

1:31.6

as little pool fans you know This is a this is a holy grail to the great the European Cup fan

1:37.2

You know obviously we've been lucky enough to get to two under Beniteers and obviously one we shouldn't have one and one we shouldn't have one we shouldn't have one and one we should have one

1:44.3

so we wait so long again you know I don't think any of us although there's a fellow in the

1:48.8

corn we probably disagree with this I don't think any of us would have thought in our wildest themes that we were getting to another one so soon on the clock.

1:56.0

So to get to it now it's unbelievable, you know, it means everything, you know, as a Lippel fan,

2:01.0

the same clubs in this country that it doesn't see

2:03.8

internet with them for whatever reason that's their problem the fans as well I mean

2:08.2

but for us it's our holy grail to keep saying so it means everything so

2:12.0

yeah Maro always obviously keeps to referring to you there because we did in pre-book in six months in advance

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