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Anfield rapper as Neil Atkinson and I've got Ian Ryan Harry Pryor and Rob Gutman

in order to go through well the current state of play in a number of

different senses we will be talking in a few minutes about Leeds 1 Liverpool 1

either side of that will bookend at the conversation with the frankly much bigger

deal and the thing that actually throws Leeds one Liverpool one gives it a

massive question mark as to what it's meaningfulness will be going into next

season it is we will what it's meaningfulness will be going into next season.

It is, we will start, Ian, I'll come over to you first.

There is, the thing that I thought was difficult last night was the fact that everyone was

more interested in the talking than was more interested in the football,

pre-match and post-match manager and captain,

and what was said by the punditry class within there as well, felt as though, and even Patrick Bamford frankly,

felt as though it had as much relevance for the wider sort of football picture

as the game itself.

And that isn't good and it especially isn't good

because it's a manager and a captain left the front up something that is at one level absolutely nothing to do with them.

Yeah, it was easy to forget Neil there was a game taking place last night I think it must be the first time a long time. I didn't check the

news until right before kickoff because you're absorbed by everything else that's going on and I think I felt so sorry for the manager to be to be put in that to in that position and I think if you are if you're going to make decisions that are that impactful and impact on people's lives in such a big way and we know

football for many is everything. If you're going to do that have the bollocks to

come out and talk us through it. Don't put the manager in the situation

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