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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Post-Game: Kop kids Cup heroics see Shrewsbury beaten on night to remember

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Soccer, Sports, Sports News

4.4979 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

19 years, 102 days. That the average age of the Liverpool starting XI against Shrewsbury Town for the FA Cup Fourth Round replay at Anfield as the Reds booked a place in the Fifth Round. Join Guy Clarke for the Post-Game podcast as we bring you all the reaction you need to a historic night in front of the Kop. With Neil Critchley in charge, his young squad saw off League One side Shrewsbury Town to set up a Fifth Round tie with Chelsea. Listen in for Critchley's post-match press conference, including his thoughts on James Milner's attendance at the game and what Jurgen Klopp has had to say. As well as that, the ECHO's Chief LFC writer, Ian Doyle delivers his verdict and our LFC regular contributors Sam Planche and Ross Strachan both have their say, plus what's being said in the Blood Red Podcast Facebook group. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the post-game podcast on the Blood Red channel, bringing you all the big

0:06.6

match reaction with views from the press box, the dugout and the stands.

0:12.0

19 years 102 days that the average age of Liverpool's youngest ever team as they beat

0:19.2

Shrewsbury town to make it through to the fifth round of the FA Cup, a historic night at

0:24.0

Anfield that we're here to react to on the postgame podcast, right here on the

0:28.4

Blood Red channel. I'm Guy Clark and welcome along on a night where even more history was made as Curtis Jones just

0:35.4

19 years and six days old became the Red's youngest ever captain. Coming up then

0:41.3

will get reaction to the eventful night at Anfield as Roshon in Hear the thoughts of Boss Neil Critchley having seen his young sight beat EFL opposition on a night

0:55.6

none of them will forget in front of the cop. There's also plenty of fan reaction to

1:00.5

come to from the Blood Red Podcast Facebook group as well as from a couple of

1:04.7

our regular contributors. Before all of that though let's get ourselves across to

1:09.1

Anfield where waiting to give his thoughts is the Echo's chief Liverpool writer Ian Doyle.

1:15.0

Well here we are at Anfield and Liverpool have got through to the fifth round of the

1:18.3

FA Cup by being Shrewsbury Town 1 nil in their fourth round replay here at Anfield. That sounds all pretty normal and

1:24.5

straightforward but as anybody's been following this story will know it's been

1:27.4

anything but of course because Jurgen Club wasn't here. None of were none of

1:31.6

his senior players were here either with the exception of James Millen was actually watching on but none of them were playing.

1:37.0

Basically Liverpool are on the winter break and clubs made a big deal of ensuring that his senior players are not playing any games over this next week.

1:44.4

And of course the FAA organized replays for this date.

1:48.0

And so basically what it meant is that Liverpool fielded a under 23 team, or in effect actually it wasn't more of an under 20 team given that the average

1:54.9

age of the of the side was 19 years and 102 days which is the youngest ever

2:00.0

Liverpool team to ever take to a field and they won by one goal to nil and it has to be

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