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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Liverpool vs Atletico Madrid question explored as concerns grow

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

News, Soccer, Sports, Sports News

4.4 β€’ 979 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We have a Blood Red podcast with a difference for you as Sean Bradbury is joined by the Liverpool ECHO’s political editor Liam Thorp to explore the concerns that have grown on Merseyside following the Champions League match between Liverpool and Atletico Madrid at Anfield on March 11. Despite growing fears around coronavirus in England, the match was allowed to be played in front of 52,000 supporters – which included around 3,000 travelling fans from Madrid, where at the time the virus was rife and where gatherings of more than 1,000 people had been banned. It is impossible to answer whether the match – the last major football game to be staged in England before the country went into lockdown – led to the significant spread of coronavirus in Liverpool. But what Liam, who has covered this story extensively, taking it even to Downing Street, can answer, is what the thought-process was of the authorities before the match, and how it has changed since. He also talks about the investigation launched by Liverpool City Council into the game – and the response he got when he put the concerns felt by many on Merseyside about it to the government. It was a response that made back-page national news. The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

0:08.0

Hello everyone and welcome to a special edition of the Blood Red Podcast with myself Sean Brabbury.

0:13.4

Very pleased also to say that we've done some business, a bit of wheeling and

0:16.6

dealing and made a significant sign from elsewhere in our newsroom.

0:19.8

Now I'm sure many listeners here and readers of the Echo will be familiar with Liam Thor,

0:24.0

but as well as being the Thursday night out and out goal scorer in the Echoes five-aside football.

0:28.8

He is also our political editor. Liam Thorpe,pe is with us today.

0:33.0

Thorpe is getting on?

0:34.0

Lock down sheet, you're okay?

0:35.0

Well, I'm very pleased to be here.

0:37.0

I've just been practicing some of my left foot volleys with some balloons in my house.

0:41.0

Just because you know, you don't want to lose that sharpness for

0:44.0

for Thursday night football whenever it eventually does come back.

0:47.0

I thought Sam Carroll be very pleased you've been keeping yourself in shape for it good math.

0:51.0

Sam Carroll who he's mocked my fitness on a number of occasions but he still maintains that

0:56.0

I've scored the best ever goal at Echo Five a side.

0:58.9

No, that's what it's all about't it, at the end of the day?

1:02.6

It is when you're once described as a sort of Jeff Horsfield

1:07.1

mixed with Dimitar Burbitov character.

1:09.8

I think that just about sums you up, yeah, you say you know the goals go in so you're

1:14.0

absolutely kind of complaining.

1:16.1

So yes this is this is us today and what we're going to discuss really why this is a kind of special

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