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

Hello and welcome to the final Blood Red Podcast of the Year. I'm joined by Paul Gorse. Good afternoon, Paul.

Hello, Sam. And James, good afternoon. How are you, Mr. Sam Carroll? Good to have you with us today.

It's a special moment for me. Obviously, Ian Doyle couldn't be bother coming into work today.

So I have been giving the honor.

I wasn't really giving the honor.

I was just dragged from his seat, and I pulled in.

We've got a younger, a bit better looking,

Deputy.

We're going for youth for 2019, that's what for 2019. It's the way forward. So we can get

into it I think. That's James, you and I'm field. I was actually watching the game.

It was 1 nill to Arsenal, went the toilet, came out, it was 2-0 to Arsenal went the toilet came out it was 2-1 to lift

pool and a riot pretty much started what was your thoughts on the on the game yeah

just another unbelievable night at Anfield, wasn't it? I think, just, you kind of run out of

superlatives in this season because I was at Melwood the day before and, you know, I think there

was a few eyebrows raised amongst

the written press when cops said oh no we haven't even really started

playing anywhere near our level yet you know there's a lot more to come from this team

and then proceeded to kind of pick quite a few holes in the in the four-nilled

drub in a new castle on boxing day.

Do you think that's a purposeful move from clot?

Do you know what? I think he is, I think he was being genuine and I think think and when we saw that that was proved right by the way that his players raised the bar against Arsenal because that's you know that that wasn't you know a useless Arsenal team that's an Arsenal team that they go 20 odd games unbeaten not long ago under Emory they've been a you know

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