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

Hello and welcome to the verdict podcast. I'm your host Paul Relock and I'm delighted to be joined today by the Daily Mirror's Northern Football Correspondence David Madig.

David, are you okay?

Hello Paul, yeah, I'm good.

Yeah, we caught up at the back end the last season,

six months further down the line and we're here to talk about

Liverpool again and we know that will touch John what happened at the back end of last season later on in this conversation,

but there's only one place to start if that's all right. You were there, Anfield on Sunday

first for Manchester United and I did a

three-one victory for Liverpool that trucking them back to the top of the table what

did you make of at all? Well interesting actually because it probably wasn't amongst

Liverpool's best performances of the season and yeah and yet they did

dominate the game dominated manches united 36 shots at 11 or 12 on target, deserve to win, absolutely thoroughly deserve

winners and for once found a way to get through Jose Marinios parked buses so obviously for Liverpool it was it was an

incredible afternoon yeah and you look at the table you take a motion out of it there

were 16 points clearly

United going into the game and most times you would probably say

Liverpool will win a game like that comfortably certainly at home but were you

surprised by the golf indifference between these two you know superpowers of English football.

Yeah I was I was surprised it's an interesting question that because the

inference is and it's quite right that there shouldn't be a gulf and there rarely hasn't been

is the last few years clopers not actually beaten Manchester United in the league since he arrived

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