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

Time once again on Blood Red to rewind the clock and head back to September 2004.

Raffa Benitez's Reds were heading for their first away Champions League group game of the season.

Off the back of a trip to Old Trafford and a home thrashing of Norwich City, Europe beckoned once more.

I'm Guy Clark and this is the road to Istanbul

as every Champions League match day, we chart Liverpool's road to the 2005 final 15 years on.

Through the course of the season we aim to tell the story behind Liverpool's most unlikely

of all their European Cup triumphs.

Of course until last summer their most recent, the cherished number five.

Alongside me, as he was last time out, is a man whose encyclopedic knowledge is to be commended,

and that is Dan Kaye Dan, how are you?

I'm all right, a little bit stunned at being described as

encyclopedic but I'll take it. And I suppose over the last 15 years a one-ill

defeat away an olympi rkoss may have slipped through the gap somewhere, may it?

Yeah, I wouldn't say it's one of those games that kind of like have spent an awful lot of time

thinking or dwelling over in the last 15 years, but it was very much part of, the name Olympia Arcoffs is very much woven into the fabric of

Liverpool's European history now obviously because of these two matches in 2005 and also the two

batches in the way for

courtroom of 2001 and once you know once I kind of sat down and thought about it a little

but I do know there is there are some elements of this night that I do remember.

And one of perhaps one of the most fitting ones bearing in mind

where we are at the start of another European journey this season.

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