This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield. Hello everybody and welcome to the latest Liverpool blood red

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

our full-time Liverpool Correspondable Home Home and Away Chainspiece, Hi, Jay.

Hello Ian?

Also with me is Christian Walsh.

Hello, Ian.

And Joseph Rimmer of Rimmington Valley, Rimsville.

Hello. That's funny, hi you.

Oh, that's funny, funny. Hi, yeah.

Well, we're all laughing and joking because finally we've reached the end of the Premier League season.

James, are you as delighted and relieved as the rest of us are that football is now officially

over apart from a small

mass of a champion league.

That's coming up.

Liverpool obviously got the four-wheel win against Brighton.

Ended up finishing fourth exactly where they finished last season, one point and worse off, but there's no arguments that this has been a much better season for Liverpool.

Without any shadow of a doubt, I think obviously the heroics in Europe have kind of dominated the conversation but I think it shouldn't be

undervalued just what they've managed to do in the Premier League.

As you said, a point worse off than last season but when you think

last season was a season without European football and we know how beneficial that is when you've

got so much time to prepare and rest in between and you look at the hurdles they've had to overcome this season with the

injuries and the schedule and continue leaving. It's just been one thing after another and you know that makes it all the

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