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

Hello it's Paul Relock and welcome to your latest podcast on the Blood Red channel.

Now hopefully you've caught up with all our coverage from a historic weekend for Liverpool

in Madrid and no doubt we'll be reliving it all at our Blood Red live events at the Baltic

market on Wednesday night.

And the special guest of that

event just happens to be on the phone with me now it's our Liverpool FC

correspondent James face how was your weekend mate?

Quite lively yeah you know what I think just coming back down to earth like millions of other

political fans around the world now, I think, yeah, just, you know, getting drenched on the school run yesterday morning, it felt like it was, it was well and truly back to reality after just an absolutely sensational few days.

I know, we'll, as I said, we'll cover all of this blood-red life, but you know, you said

that it's sinking in there.

Do you think it's going to take a few weeks to kind of just think about what you've experienced or what you've witnessed over there.

Yeah, do you know what for me personally as well I need to I've got some time off after after today and I'm actually really looking forward to just

setting it down and watching watching the game back and watching all the scenes

afterwards and of course you know watching the parade in detail as well and just soaking it all in because it's

it's a pretty manic a manic few days and it was a strange old feeling for me after the game on Saturday night because on the one hand you

want him to, you want to see everything, you want to, you want to, you're up the night, there's so many iconic moments from, know the way that the players all ran towards

that Liverpool end a few minutes after the final whistle and the the rule that

followed and then you know then the raw emotion of Jordan Henderson embracing his dad and

and just you didn't want to take your eyes off it but then you're thinking I've got a deadline

I'm thinking here and I really need to write a

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