Hello and

Welcome to the Liverpool Echo's Blood Red podcast,

Special Edition with it being International Week.

We've decided to go a bit different for this episode.

We've got a world-renowned author in the studio.

Simon Hughes is here to talk about his new Liverpool book.

We're also joined by another world renowned character in James Pierce

and one who's just he sort of lach laneish known

Jo gonna and myself Neil Jones so we're here to talk about

Liverpool in the early 2000s and Simon you've got the new bookouts your

third in this this sort of series ring of fire first of all do you want to tell us what

the aim of it is?

The aim?

Well I suppose like the other books that have done

the kind of loosely, well fairly actually based around the player interviews without much of a narrative

always between each of the interviews whereas with this book I felt the you know the

the Nauties is a decade that's been I don't use I'd say a Nauties is a decade that's been written I don't want I use I to say a

Nauties yeah forgive that the 2000 is a decade that you know is being

written quite you know more than any other decades in Liverpool's history you know with social media you know more than any other zephies in Liverpool's history you know with

social media you know newspapers you know an online presence and I wanted to

kind of get like it more of a consistent narrative through the book so yeah I think you know obviously the

book starts with Phil Thompson who is like a connection with the distant past I suppose

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