Hello there and welcome to the latest Blood Red podcast from the Liverpool Echo.

I'm your host Joe River back after my summer holiday.

I'm joined today by Ian Doyle, who survived the Battle of St James's Park on Monday evening.

How are we, Ian?

I'm okay.

I just thought it was funny, but I'm sure we'll get into that.

Yeah, yeah, it was amusing in many ways.

But before we do that, some housekeeping, of course. Yeah, yeah, it was, it was amusing in many ways. But before we do that, some housekeeping,

of course. We are remote today. Our producer, Ian, is away this week. It is the summer holiday season after all. Things should go back to normal in September. But yeah, we'll give a shout

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we're not live today as you'll know but if you'd like to send me a question to be answered

in the pod i'm happy to take them joe dot rim at reach plc.com i've had several since i've been away

sorry if you're one of the people that have been sending me questions or your thoughts on on some of the events over the summer sorry i've not got back to you

i've got a couple written down that we can talk about in one from after monday night a couple

from before them but which i think are still relevant so we'll get into them as the podcast goes on

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give us a comment all those nice things they make us very happy and I love to

read your comments and yes it helps us get this podcast to more listeners so we do

appreciate it but let's start with St James's Park doily Eventful doesn't really begin to cover it.

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