Empty Anfield One Year On: How Covid-19 has impacted Liverpool FC, their fans and their community

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.4 • 1000 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

One year to the day since Liverpool were the last English club to welcome a capacity crowd to a game on home soil, Guy Clarke explores the impact the pandemic has had on each aspect of the Liverpool FC community. Paul Gorst, the ECHO’s Liverpool correspondent, explains the effect on working within football; chair of Spirit of Shankly, Joe Blott, talks about the campaigning that supporters’ groups across the country – including on Merseyside – have done; Dan Morgan, content editor of the Liverpool.com website, speaks as a fan and as a Kop season-ticket holder, while Dave Powell, the business of football writer at the ECHO, discusses the financial ramifications. Plus, there’s excerpts from Jurgen Klopp and Gini Wijnaldum, 12 months on from that Champions League match against Atletico Madrid at Anfield. Enjoy.Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloodRedLiverpoolFCJoin our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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.
0:10.0	In early March 2020, with the winter lifting in the bright spring sun shining down
0:15.1	Liverpool were on course to end their 30 year wait for an English league title
0:20.1	25 points clear at the top of the Premier League.
0:22.8	Yoganclops Red Machine had churned out an incredible 27 wins from the 29 League outings
0:28.8	dropping just 5 points.
0:31.2	These were unprecedented times.
0:33.6	Yet following Liverpool's Champions League elimination to
0:39.2	Atletico Madrid in the round of 16, on the 11th of March
0:43.6	Anfield so often the soundtrack provided the beat
0:46.8	to Liverpool's rock and roll football fell silent.
0:51.0	I'm Guy Clark and here on the Blood Red channel we take a look back on the last 12 months as
0:55.4	Anfield lay empty to explore the impact the coronavirus has had. The impact on the pitch?
1:01.2	Of course we miss them so we miss them much and especially as Liverpool of course we miss them because we have the most
1:06.6	special atmosphere probably in the world of football. On the fans,
1:09.5	I felt my responsibility as someone who was a season ticket holder in the cop I felt that I was
1:15.1	playing my part I felt that I've been on this journey I felt that it wasn't those 11 lads on the
1:20.0	pitch I felt like it was all of us together. Those covering games?
1:24.0	It's very streamlined, very kind of sterile almost.
1:29.0	How football has shown itself to stand for more than just the 90 minutes.
1:33.7	To not see your friends, not see your mates, not go to the normal things, match their routines.
1:39.7	I've been incredibly hard.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Reach Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Reach Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.