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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Houllier's Treble-Winners #8: Porto & Tranmere wins put Reds within touching distance of glory in Europe and at home

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Soccer, Sports, Sports News

4.4979 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

With the League Cup under their belts, Liverpool set off in March 2001 to continue their progress in both the FA Cup and UEFA Cup as well as bid to secure a top=three finish in the Premiership. Amongst the month's standout fixtures was an FA Cup quarter-final visit to Prenton Park to take on John Aldridge's Tranmere Rovers, whilst also facing Porto in the last eight of the UEFA Cup. Join Guy Clarke and Dan Kay as they take a trip down Memory Lane 20 years on in the latest instalment of Houllier's Treble-Winners, with the month finishing with a visit from Manchester United to Anfield as the Reds set their rivals' season off the rails and continued along their own path to glory. Enjoy.Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloodRedLiverpoolFCSign up for our Liverpool FC newsletters: https://data.reachplc.com/210734476470860Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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.

0:08.0

Guy Clark here and welcome to the latest installment of Hoolier's treble winners on the Blood Red Channel.

0:14.4

As the late winter fell away, the sun rising with one trophy already under their belts.

0:18.8

Liverpool sprung into action during the changing of seasons with no let up in their assault on the

0:24.3

Premiership's top three the FAA cup and UEFA cup. Alongside me as ever our

0:29.1

resident read Dan K Dan how are you keeping we're we're're getting towards the meaty stuff now.

0:35.9

We are, this is what we've all been kind of putting the ground working for,

0:39.2

the, um, in the same way that you know, we're starting to see the weather improve and the leaves come back on the trees and the flowers start to bloom.

0:47.0

In the best football seasons, this is when the best football team start to bloom.

0:52.0

And this is very much what we saw from

0:54.1

Liverpool 20 years ago it was it was still you know having had a quick look over

0:57.6

the fixtures it was still a little bit of an up and down month but there was some

1:01.4

you know some big occasions in there that really shows how

1:04.9

this young developing team under Gerard who they had really started to grow and

1:08.2

evolve and you know really kind of hone that winning mentality which would you know really bear coming to really

1:14.8

really full effect as the season got to the business end.

1:18.3

Yeah it was really sort of quarter final month as it were with sort FAA up and you have a couple.

1:23.6

We're getting to fixtures in particular in a bit, but you should say there like up and down

1:28.0

month, I remember when we were talking sort of through August, September and maybe even into October, but certainly from the turn of the

1:35.6

calendar year into 2001, Liverpool becomes this rampaging winning machine

1:40.2

getting through the knockout competitions and really sort of applying themselves

1:44.2

well in the Premier League.

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