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It is the Anfield Rap, I'm Neil Atkinson,

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This show is going to be dominated.

We're going to have be joined by James Pierce at the very end to talk about the pieces written about Robbie Fowler and Robbie Fowler's managerial career.

But with the three guests to have here, it's going to be dominated by the current climate around football within the coronavirus and the discourse around that from the whole country.

But obviously we're going to start off zooming in on Liverpool's decision to Fairlow staff that was was announced on Saturday which caused a fair bit of controversy.

Before we get stuck literally into that, there's got to be a disclaimer,

the Anfield App priored itself on being really rather transparent in terms of the decisions that we make and the first thing I want to make clear is that

towards the back end of last week we also furloughed some of the team. I'm not really going to go into the details

specifically around who or anything like that at this stage of proceedings

And not least because I'll sort of respect for people's personal privacy and all of that all the stuff

But we have to make a decision to fill with some of the staff given the situation that's going on

around us at the moment. We're not up nights hugely concerned about the absolute hanging on

future of the business although the longer this goes on the tougher that will become

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