Hello, welcome to the Unscented Match Buildup Show. It's Liverpool, it's Bournemouth, it's

the Premier League, John Machen, Leanne Prescott, Bailey Shaw, joining me in the Red Men TV

studios. I nearly said the his owl then, and I thought better of it. We're not top of the table

anymore, which is a little bit disappointing, but also to be expected, John, with them praying

Everton. Pressure off.

Yeah.

But I think if the team don't think, right, we've got to go and show them for this weekend and they don't deserve the title, I really think that they should go out there and they'd be

absolutely up for it and absolutely batter-bomers.

I think, Leanne, you know, John talks about the pressure there

and it was something that I was thinking about last week is this idea that are we better

playing with Manchester City having a bit more focus on them?

I mean, it's all been about Liverpool the last two weeks and stuff while we've been

ahead of them in the table.

Do you think that will play a factor in Saturday's game?

I think it will, but we've also got to remember Liverpool fans at the moment, especially on

Twitter. It doesn't matter if we're top or if we're second or if we're third. They're just going to be worried the whole time anyway.

I think it does help having City sort of actually playing first. I thought that was a good thing. And the fact they are top, I would agree. For me personally is a good thing. But there will always be fans out there who just think it's, you know, the pressure's on you've got to win every game. People said after the West Ham result that the title was over. So there's always going to be that like hyperbolic reaction, whether you're first or third. people still say Spurgeon's a race. We have that. Why is it either here or here and it's never down the middle? Why is it like the title, we're bottling it? Why isn't it just Liverpool's due against the side that played well? I genuinely couldn't tell you. I think it's just because people wanted the title race for so long, now we've got it. They're scared to enjoy it. They're scared that we might not get there. And so for them, if we don't get there, it's what was the point? But actually, you should be sitting, you should enjoy this team, you should enjoy what they're capable of and what they've produced this season. But it's not just us, you know, City fans like that as well, but they're just more used to being in the title races, I think, at the moment. Bailey, did you ever think that if Liverpool were to win the league this season, it was going to be playing Salem? Not at all. If you were, then you've not watched Liverpool for the last 20, 30 years, have you? that you may have a great point to think that when we played City and we had that chance to make the gap, whether it was seven or ten points and it was sort of like everyone was like, oh my God, this is mental. That terrified me to be that far away because you've got so much to lose. Because it's that the bigger you are, harder you fall sort of stance, isn't it? isn't it? And every week that we didn't win, whether we drew, we lost, it'd be all the gaps getting closer and the media love to put the pressure on Liverpool because they're not city and city have done it before. So there's not that pressure there. So I think that I like the tightness. I mean, I don't like, like, I think if you had that draw against West Ham at the start of the season

you had that 4-0 last week, nothing said because I feel like the closer we get to the end of the season it becomes more and more real. People don't believe at the start, it's just a brilliant run. It gets past Christmas, we're still top, and then it's sort of like every single game's on a knife edge and you're not enjoying the football because you just want to win and you want to see some silverware.

But I completely agree with Leanne.

It's sort of what you just have to breathe sometimes

and realise that we haven't had it this good in a long time. And I think that when you look at the squad, look at the manager, you look at how far we've come, everyone wants to win something. But I think at the same time, everyone wants to see a good Liverpool team putting good results and I just think the last two weeks have been a bit of a blip as we've called it.

Yeah I think that's it isn't it John I think time everyone wants to see a good Liverpool team putting good results and I just think the last

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