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

With Premier League football due to return in less than three weeks time, plenty of preparations are going on behind the

scenes one of the main hurdles for the players to overcome of course will be that of

regaining match fitness so here on the Blood Red channel we've been catching up

with former

Liverpool head phys galle. I'm Guy Clark and welcome to our exclusive

chat with the man who ran the physio room for six years at both Melwood and

Anfield culminating in that historic night in

Istanbul back in 2005. So sit back and enjoy as we talk with Dave Gally on his

role with the Reds that season under Raffa Benitez before he gives us his professional view on the return

of Premier League action with Project Restart. We began though by rewinding the clock almost 16 years to the summer of 2004 as

Rafa Baritas replaced Gerard Hulier and the difference that he brought to the club.

Very different overnight, but an interesting change.

The way he worked was different to Gerard,

but he got the players that were good enough, and everybody seemed to take everything on board.

We just sort of worked hard every day and success is a consequence as they say.

It's not a result.

No and I suppose for you that season you wouldn't know then in the summer of 2004

just how busy you'd be that season because I suppose even from day one it was they were constantly players in your

physio room needing treatment and there were a fair few lengthy injuries

through the course of it as well. Yeah definitely definitely it's funny people always ask me what's my biggest memory of the actual final?

And I can honestly say now my biggest memory was being absolutely shattered before the game.

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