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

Eight weeks on from that night in Madrid, the Red's preparations are in full flow with just 13 days to go until they kick off the new Premier League season.

The man who lifted the European Cup Jordan Henderson, who'll also lead out Yergenclopside against Norwich, is a man who's attracted plenty of attention in the last week or so.

From his admission of wanting to lift a trophy along with Clop and James Milner to being turned down a selfie with Stephen

Gerard, the Red Skipper has had to deal with being

turned down on more than one occasion to write his name into cop folklore and

now with the eve of the new season around the corner we thought at about time

Jordan Henderson was given the praise and admiration he deserves.

So here on Blood Red we'll be catching up with one of his former Academy coaches

and mentor of sorts throughout his career to find out exactly what makes him tick, the trials and tribulations he's

been through and whether or not he'll be getting his hands on yet more silverware.

I'm Guy Clark.

Welcome along to you, the listener, and also to former Sunderland Captain Academy Coach and now club

ambassador with the Blackcats and that is Kevin Ball. Kevin thanks for joining us.

We spoke to you 12 months or so ago. It seems as though that time's completely

flown by how are you keeping?

Very well thank you very well indeed and all the better for the new season not far away

Well for us it's not only a week away. Yeah, certainly yeah it has come round fast now after the summer did seem to drag for a little while, but good that the

football is coming back.

And as I say, 12 months ago you caught up with Pull Weilock and I mean in the last year it's been some year and

specifically for Jordan Henderson. Yeah I think when we spoke last year was

talking about reactions from different disappointments and how he deals with it and how he's

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