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

Hello everybody and welcome back to the Academy show on the Liverpool

Echo's blood red channel your roundup of everything going on with the red's young

stars down at Kirby. I'm your host for today Patrick Smith from a very cold

northwest of England and I'm joined by two of the most in-the-no

journalists when it comes to the Liverpool Academy. At first, we've got Liverpool.com editor Matt

Allison. Hello Matt.

Hey mate, how's things you're good?

Yeah, not too bad.

It's absolutely freezing as I'm sure you're well aware.

I think you're racing for the snow over in Liverpool, aren't you?

Yeah, absolutely, we were just talking about that off air weren't we? It's absolutely freezing looking forward to playing Five Besides tonight in in some ways but maybe less so in others

Yeah, absolutely. You know, it's been a long week for Liverpool without a match. We're desperate for one, aren't we?

Kim, we're talking about the weather.

But we're also joined then by the Echo's own Young Starlet

in Kiefer McDonald.

Welcome along, Kiefer.

Good afternoon.

I'm gonna lose that young star one day, I think, you know, each week and the facial

is coming along a little bit so it may just be star next week, but yeah, not too bad,

surviving the cold. I mean, as Matt will know, Kirby is surviving the cold I mean as Matt will know Kirby is probably the

coldest place in the world so it's quite fitting to be talking about it on such a

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