David Thompson on playing for and leaving Liverpool, the injury that ended his career, and his thoughts on Jurgen Klopp’s champions elect

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Soccer, Sports, Sports News

4.4 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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For our latest podcast we’ve picked up the phone to former Liverpool midfielder David Thompson, who tells Paul Wheelock about coming through the club’s youth ranks alongside the likes of Jamie Carragher and Michael Owen, and the pride he felt at going on to make more than 50 appearances for the first team. Thompson also talks the arrival of Gerard Houllier at Anfield and explains his decision and emotions at leaving the club in the summer of 2000. He went on to play his best football under Graeme Souness at Blackburn Rovers until a serious knee eventually led to him retiring early. Thompson speaks honestly about that, as well as giving his thoughts on the situation today's Premier League players currently find themselves in, asked to train and play while the country is still in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, and also his verdict of Jurgen Klopp, Jordan Henderson and the Reds side that is destined to become champions once football returns.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/ Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriber Visit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.
0:08.0	Hello it's Paul Relock and welcome to your latest podcast on the Blood Red channel.
0:13.5	Now earlier this week I spent a really enjoyable 45 minutes on the phone with
0:17.4	former Liverpool midfielder David Thompson.
0:19.6	He told me all about coming through the youth ranks at Liverpool in the 1990s with
0:23.8	the likes of Jamie Cadogan and Michael Owen and just what it felt like to go on to play
0:27.8	more than 50 times for the club he first joined when he was just nine years of age.
0:31.6	David also explained why he left
0:33.8	Liverpool in the summer of 2000 despite playing more than 30 games to
0:37.2	Gilad hoolier the season before. He also went on to talk about signing for
0:40.9	Liverpool legend Graham's students at Blackburn Rovers, where he was playing the best football of his career,
0:45.5	football that got him into the England squad,
0:47.8	before he picked up a cruel knee injury that eventually resulted in him
0:51.1	retiring early from the game. It's a really honest
0:53.6	listen. But we started by talking about the current day, how he'd feel about
0:57.1	being asked to return to training and playing while we're still very much in the midst
1:01.0	of this coronavirus crisis and his
1:03.2	forts on Jurgen Clop Jordan Henderson and the Liverpool team that
1:06.7	is destined to become Premier League champions.
1:09.2	The Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo.
1:18.0	Well, hi David, thank you very much for taking the time to speaking to us. Firstly, how you doing and how you're coping with what we're all dealing with currently?
1:22.0	I think I'm just as bored as everybody. It's,
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