Hello everybody and welcome to the latest Liverpool Blood Red

podcast with me Ian Doyle joining me today I'm delighted to say we do have our

full-time Liverpool reporter both home and away it's James Pierce. Hi James. Hello Ian.

Also joining us is echo reporter Christian Walsh.

Hello Ian. Hello and another echo reporter Paul Gost.

Good afternoon Ian. He was of course the tallest member of the sports desk.

And a digital guru.

He is, yes, he is, and a trendy guru as well, apparently, by all accounts.

He's that referred to me, the trendy guru.

Yeah. So going from tall to small to small, James.

You were at Old Trafford along with Christian on Saturday.

You witnessed Liverpool fall to a two on defeat.

It's been a few days now since that game. I mean what do you make of it all?

Was it just one of those where you can't win them all or was it one where

Morino did a number on clop or did Liverpool just not reach the standards or was it all of those?

I think it was all of those things rolled into one.

Yeah, just a very frustrating afternoon. There's no question that Liverpool were masters of their own downfall.

With that first half performance, nowhere near the level.

In any department, I think, obviously a big focus on just how soft and

avoidable the two goals were too long punts downfield that they didn't deal with

didn't react quick enough to the second balls but you know I didn't think any any part a clops team

functioned anywhere near the level you'd hope for in a fixture like that and then

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