This podcast is Mike Bankhole from the sports social podcast network.

It is to alive, it's Neil Atkinson from what we can call the rainy city,

the rainy city of Liverpool.

Joining us is Mike Bankhole from London is it rain in London Mike?

It's not actually a we're still chilly but like no rain no rain I'm not surprised

honestly all the rain has come to Liverpool I've got to see ever we can observe all

the rain and from God's own peninsula we've got

Ali McGovern in order to work through building up to Liverpool versus Brighton and

from there as well look back at what's been the international breakthrough way in which it's gone

we're going to discuss the manager's press conference from earlier today where he got stuck

into the obvious stuff around Trent Alexander Arnold, but he also made mention of the fact that

Liverpool from now until November the 12th will be playing 13 games in 43 or

42 days depends on which day you pick as day one.

It doesn't really matter the principle is Liverpool will be playing a game every 3.25 days

over that period of time and there was a report this week from a company called

Howden that I got sent to me about year on year comparison of injuries in the big five leagues last

season. Now obviously it was skewed by COVID and especially the

omicron variance but within that it was crystal clear that injuries across

the big five leagues are increasing and the manager speaks about this an

awful lot that he may brief mention of it today in the press conference.

But for me, you know, the knock-on effect of this are really rather great for a number of different reasons.

Obviously we've seen Liverpool have an injury issue so far this season.

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