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

First of all, this will be your 12thth mercy side Derby since you took charge in

Liverpool seven rooms and four draws already and Eerton not challenging

Liverpool for a lead position in that time either in some ways then you feel you're

still to experience the full extent of this local rivalry?

I don't know exactly what you mean.

I mean how it feels when you lose a Darby or whatever.

I've lost enough Darby in my life to know how it feels so don't need that experience to be honest

but all the games were really really difficult especially before the game because you make such a fuss of it all the time and

and yet we have to play the game so you build it up like crazy and it's like around this game

nothing will happen and we have still to play the game in the home games that work better.

Obviously then it didn't away games.

So, but we were always in the game and that's most, that's what I'm most concerned about, that we really have, we always respect, of course,

we always respected Everton, that's what we do this time and for some really good reason

because they're just a good football team and they

say they look especially good. So yeah we should be spot on and we will.

What's the international break being like for you?

I suppose particularly with concerns over the welfare of your players with so many of them having to travel?

Actually I don't like to answer this question because it always sounds like I moan about something I can not change anyway

So it's but if you want to if you want to be a serious journalist write a piece about it. So how it is when you play at Wednesday in Peru and on

Saturday in Liverpool. What do you think about that if it should be like this and

what the FIFA is doing around this, how they help us with bringing the players

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