Hello and

welcome to a special Liverpool Blood Red podcast with me Ian Doyle.

Joining me today are our full-time Liverpool reporter,

both Home and Away, James Pierce.

We've also got Christy and Walsh, and we also have Neil Jones.

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James it's thirsty work doing this job isn't it. However you brought us a story this

morning about Anfield the new men stand is up and running finally finished by all

accounts but Liverpool are already looking ahead to redeveloping the

amphirode end aren't they? They are, yeah, that's where the focus has turned to now.

I think, you know, it's positive news. I think there's been a lot of debate about whether

FSG would kick on and do the second phase of the

Amphfield redevelopment and I think this is a really positive sign that it will

happen you know I think speaking to people at the club it's there's no set time frame there's no

set guarantees very similar to the way they approach the mainstand project but

you know they always said that this would be something that would be at the forefront of their thoughts once the main sand was completed and they're effectively saying that it's only in the last couple of weeks that the mainstand has been done. I think they only started using the new

dressing rooms, new media facilities for most of this season. The ground floor of the new stand

there's been a building site. That's now finished. So that's the focus

to now turn to Anfield Road and I think I spoke to Andy Hughes,

Liverpool's operations officer and he said that now it's about trying to find the right financial model, the right,

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