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Hello and welcome and is the Anfield rap.

I am Neil Atkinson and I've got in front of me Paul Cope.

I've got Paul Murphy and Ian Salmon. Coming up we've got John and Murphy and Ian Salmon.

Coming up we've got John Gibbons and Peter Moore on Jerry Marston who sadly passed away.

But we have to deal with Southampton whether we like it or not.

And Paul Cope, good God that was painful in the first 45 minutes. The

Liverpool in general across the 90 I can just look, they just look a bit drained

and it's a reminder that you know until Manchester City did it no one's retained this league title for for 10 12 years

And there's a lot of other things going on as well these football footballers are also living in a pandemic. They're also living with the lockdown scenario.

But the first half, Liverpool was just terrible performance wise.

Across both halves, they just looked devoid of inspiration, they looked so flat.

Yeah, it's a tricky one of where to start with it all.

Like for the first time and a long time last night, I got stuck into Twitter Twitter into the mad world of Twitter and it was

interesting seeing what's still going on there not much has changed really but

it was interesting seeing people coming back and it's interesting how often you get criticized for trying to be reasonable and balanced in these situations.

And there's obviously there is there's obviously a place for saying we were rubbish.

But I think more than anything else coming out of that game last night,

I think it's time for everyone to take a bit of a step back

and pause and reflect. I had someone say to be last night,

it was the first time in his entire Liverpool supporting life that he'd switched off a game when we were losing 1-0.

And I was like, really? But you remember we had Roy Hodgson as manager?

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