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

Hello and welcome to the verdict podcast. I'm Paul Relock and I'm delighted to be joined by the Sunday Times

football correspondent Jonathan Northcroft. Jonathan how are you?

Hi Paul, yeah I'm very well thanks, very good. How are you?

Yeah, I'm good, thanks mate. We're really grateful that you're actually speaking to us today

because not only does it

coincide with the urban clock's three year anniversary of taking charge to Liverpool, it's also

the launch day of your new book, deadlines and darts with Delhi, we will come on to that more

what congratulations first and for us.

Thanks very much, yeah, yeah, it's not every day it happens and it's, I mean it's a pure coincidence we're speaking today

because I think we were talking about three months ago about doing this, but yeah, good.

Good stuff. We'll start with Liverpool if that's okay.

But obviously you have a lot of time for having lived in the city and

covered for a number of years. Liverpool, nill Manchester City yesterday,

Liverpool nill yesterday, I should say. the city

nill yesterday I should say.

What was your verdict on the game?

Well it's fine.

Watching Grange, you've seen this beforehand saying, you know,

this is the game that's guaranteed goals and excitement and that's exactly what I was expecting.

Even though having spoken to Clop and Guadiola during the week, the levels of respect between those two are huge and they're continuing to rise. I think they both recognize each other's work.

So I did think that they might, each of them might take measures against the other ones team. But I still thought it would be a very open game

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