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I'm Neil Atkinson.

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dot code at UK forward slash and field rap. But more on that to come because we're getting

joined by Simon Hughes to have a chat through the bits and pieces he's been

working on across the last week or so especially something excellent

about Liverpool's academy I am joined by Kev Walsh, Gareth Roberts and Rob Gutman.

Now last week we innovated a new structure for the show but some bits and pieces broke last night and in general it's nice to take a bit of a

bit of a stock check check as to where we are so we will come back to key games

under clock that is to come towards the end of the show but we're going to start off

Gareth with this little bit about the Miguel Delaney piece in the independent

which puts an argument together that the way this league may well get sorted out is

almost in a World Cup style series of training camps and games behind closed doors

come sort of June moving into July I think a lot of it's quite fair and quite fairly argued within the piece that

you know there is a that there will be a move within all but I mean most

Premier League clubs that are sensible but they have to get this season finished

one way or another because the

alternative doesn't bear thinking about. Yeah that's the direction of travel

isn't it and I think you know most of the arguments of the country don't really

stack up I mean that that's what I'm I find frustrating all right I'm a

Liverpool fan I've got a bias of course I have of course I want to see Liverpool lift

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