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

Hello everyone and welcome to the latest edition of my Liverpool life. I am your

host most steward and I'm very pleased to be joined by a man who was very

important to me in my childhood. He gave me some of my favorite moments in my formative years of the

Liverpool fan and one of my less favorite moments. I'm sure you can guess which one.

He played for the club with distinction for six and a half years is now back within the

club helping them out helping out the young players Michael Thomas welcome to the

show oh thanks for having me the show. Oh, thank you. Oh, thank you.

You know, like your formative years.

Your formative years where you said that, your formative years, where you're alive when I play.

Of course I was alive.

I was alive.

Oh, yeah. I mean, that was alive. I was alive. Oh yeah, I mean that was the period when when Arsenal and

Liverpool were battling for those titles in the late 80s early 90s that was when I was banging

my flag to the mask. So yeah, you were a very important character on both sides of that coin.

So we'll talk a little bit about the Arsenal stuff because obviously this is my

Liverpool life but you had a very strong career before you arrived at us you signed

with them as a young man 15 year olds I think you were they made his debut in a League Cup semi against

Spurs which you know yeah my own team managed to support is going with watching the

terraces.

Which, I mean, let's talk about that for a second. I can't even imagine what it's like making a debut.

But then to do it in such an atmosphere where those guys who like you say who were

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