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It is the Anfield rap. I'm Neil Atkinson.

I am joined by Paul Johnson, Ian Ryan and Grace Mailey.

In order to talk about the Community Shields, what a fantastic game it was first and foremost,

obviously winning always helps when it comes to that sort of chat.

And then on top of that as well talk about the new fellow, the big fella, the man who scored the goal

to make it 3-1 Darwin N Nunez and then on top of that

as well a bit of most Sala the general shape and then a bit of any other business

before we lead into some Strasbourg chat to big weekend two games for the mighty

boys in red two very different outcomes and two very different teams.

The Community Shield was obviously the bigger one and Ian Ryan.

Seriously, the quality of it was absolutely mind-boggling I thought it didn't feel like a friendly

it felt like both sides were taking it very very seriously indeed the pace of it I

was I was blown away by what we got to see.

Yeah, the quality was there for everyone to see.

I think, you know, I defy anyone not to be up for the season now after watching that.

There's a lot of chat about it you ready for it could you do with

come early it's come a little bit early but then you're watching that and then

you'd immediately want the seasons to start it was that good a football match of

thoughts and it's testament to both teams

near I think because city a lot of talk about city maybe being slightly undercooked

because that's only their third friendly I think was Lippel's fifth at the time but both of them didn't treat it like a friendly, it was

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