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

Hello, I'm Michael Pearson, I'm a producer for the Blood Red Podcast and for the last two days

I've been here on the ground in Madrid we wanted to share with you some of the

incredible fan stories and their journeys here to the Champions League finals so sit back and

enjoy some of these incredible stories. the Red School Marchini.

Hello, good afternoon. I'm Richard. I'm from Chester.

We're talking in Madrid Spain.

And I've driven down from Harden near Chester

two days, 1300 miles. This is my son James. Hello my name is James. I live in

Sydney, Australia and it took me a long time to get here

but it doesn't matter because that's all that matters.

Both of your father and son you know different sides of the planet that's quite a good story.

He's my son he's using my ticket for the game. Happy days. I'm lucky because

the amount of people who haven't got a ticket is a space, I'm very, very lucky.

Yeah, yeah. It is very lucky. So tell us by your journey. You drove from Chester because the flights were, A, you couldn't get them, B, they were too expensive. So me and my friend thought, okay, we'll drive from Chester down to Dover, Dover to Calais on the boat and then Calais to Madrid yesterday

which is what we did.

The total journey was 26 hours.

I think he had the out on me there.

He beat me. But he beat me in in terms of finance because it was

No one if she for me to go from Sydney to Madrid

Then it was from local to Madrid what he was that how's that wrong? I've got to go back, yes.

So me and my friend, I paid the petrol, he paid the toll, but we're about for

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