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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Life under Rafa Benitez, learning from Steven Gerrard, and the road back to the Premier League

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Soccer, Sports, Sports News

4.4979 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We welcomed former Liverpool youngster and current Cardiff City defender Lee Peltier into the ECHO’s studio for our latest podcast.After a trip down Memory Lane with the show’s co-host Paul Gorst, Lee tells the tale of a brilliant career that at the age of 31, now sees him playing in the Premier League for the first time with the promoted Bluebirds.It is a career that started at Liverpool, and while he never appeared for his boyhood club in the top flight, the handful of appearances the Toxteth lad did make were eventful to say the least.From a seven-goal League Cup thriller on his surreal debut at Anfield to a Champions League bow in one of the most intimidating stadiums in Europe, Lee looks back on his 10 years with the Reds and explains what Rafa Benitez was like to work for and what it was like to appear alongside the likes of Robbie Fowler, Jamie Carragher and the best player he has seen, Steven Gerrard.His final appearance in a Liverpool shirt was unforgettable for the wrong reasons but the experience has served him well since leaving the club for the culture shock that was Yeovil TownLee used his spell at Yeovil to refocus and he went on to play for Huddersfield Town, became Sven Goran Eriksson’s first signing at Leicester City, captained Leeds United, before being reunited with Neil Warnock at Cardiff.Warnock will never be well liked by Reds fans after his spats with Benitez but Lee reveals why he is so successful at getting clubs promoted and the big difference the Bluebirds have found between the Championship and the Premier League.Lee also talks the current Liverpool crop, including why the sky’s the limit for Trent Alexander-Arnold and why Marko Grujic, who was on loan at Cardiff last season, has a big future.And there’s also two amazing transfer tells that underline the madness that can go on behind the scenes when you’re a footballer. Enjoy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a Liverpool Echo podcast on Anfield Plus, the home of your daily

0:05.3

podcast bringing you the inside track from Liverpool FC.

0:08.8

Well, hello and welcome to a special Liverpool Echo podcast. My name is Paul Relock and we are delighted to be joined by former Liverpool and current Cardiff City defender Lee Peltier.

0:18.0

Lee, thanks very much for coming in today and agrees to talk about you clear with us.

0:21.0

Yeah, no problem. Delighted to be here to have a nice little

0:24.7

chat. Good I'm co-hosting this podcast with me is my Liverpool lacquale colleague Paul

0:29.1

Ghost who was there at the very start of Lees Cadetis.

0:32.6

I was.

0:33.6

Yeah, yeah, back in the, God, how old were we,

0:36.2

Lee, you're a year old in me, so we're,

0:38.8

10-11, yeah.

0:40.4

St. Michael's, the all conquered St St Michael's side of South Liverpool.

0:44.0

No shame in saying I thought Lee everything he knows.

0:48.0

That's shame.

0:50.0

He was a good player to be fair, I can't take that away from him.

0:53.0

So yeah, so you cleans up then, yeah?

0:57.0

Yeah, both of you.

0:58.0

Yeah, Shane Michaels was a really, really good team.

1:01.0

I started quite late there, but they were going for quite a number of years and

1:06.3

all the way up until I think it was like under 13s 14s they were winning everything

1:11.6

in each league and it was a great team to be in to be

1:14.6

first yeah it was of the play football throughout that team.

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