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

Hello everyone and welcome to your Tuesday edition of the Bird Red podcast, brought to you by the Liverpool Echo.

I'm your host Theo Squires, and joining me today we have our chief LFC writer, Ian Doyle.

How are you, Doyle?

I'm okay. You're speaking highly again of me and of everything, in fact. So, yeah. We are just a two-man pod again today, I'm afraid. Joe Rumour is around, but he is very, very busy, so pardon his absence. Paul Gawstar, LFC correspondent both home and away. He is back home, but he's enjoying a well-earned week off after touring the Far East. And Keith MacDonald is also on a week off too. I cannot possibly comment on whether the notorious podcast Dodgers break is well deserved or not. They'll lead him. Might need him soon. Might do. Exactly. They might have to get used to this kind of podcast with two people. Who will be just one of us chatting to ourselves?

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box for further details or click on sailey.com forward slash blood red. Moving on, as always, we're live on YouTube. So get your questions in, get your comments in, and we'll get to them later in the show. But there is only one place to start doily, and that's the Bilbao double header for one and three two wins for the Reds. It was a good evening for Arna Slots Men. What did you make of it all? that voice is still really high, I've said. It's just getting even higher then, wasn't it? You don't start like, talk like that normally. So it's, yeah. Can we never ever have two games on at the same evening? It's a long day, wasn't it? Because it just seemed to go on forever. And it was interesting that you saw, we've been noticed in the second half of the second game halfway through the about half the crowd had gone home and I know I've put that out and the amount of people who said they've ran out of food really early on you know and got the kids and they're getting a bit tired and you know I'm just getting tired you know that kind of thing I mean I don't blame them for not hanging around for the full two games it's I going isn't it You know, I'm just getting tired, you know, that kind of thing. I mean, I don't blame them for not hanging around for the full two games.

It's our going, isn't it? You know, although he's good, you know, they certainly got good value. The first game was particularly entertaining all the way from start to finish because it had that kind of novelty value because there were so many younger players and fringe players who were getting minutes. and, to be fair, in the second game,

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