Okay a big welcome to the Echo's big interview. It's episode two.

Thanks very much for your your listens and your comments on episode one with Jan Morby.

We certainly enjoyed it. Jan enjoyed it and I think, judging by the feedback we've had, had Neil everyone else seem to enjoy it as well.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I'm Neil Jones. I'm here with Neil Miller.

I'm delighted to say that haven't had a former Liverpool player in episode one,

we've now got a couldn't Liverpool player in episode one. We've now got a couldn't

Liverpool player. We're with Simon,

and we're going to talk about your career today.

Looking forward to it.

Yeah, exactly.

Thanks, Neil. Just back off international duty then with

Belgium and back into the brigas of the Premier League then? Yeah exactly. It was nice to go away with Belgium.

I played one friendly away to Holland which is a big army.

So it was exciting and then we have a really good result against Estonia at home

which puts us top in our group for the call of fine campaign for Russia next year.

So if we can continue the way we started the four games, it was a good end to 2016 with the national team.

But plenty to talk about Belgium, Liverpool, how you moved to the Premier League, but I wanted

to start with the early years, Simon when you're like growing up as a youngster how was that what was the area you grew up in?

Yeah exactly back in Belgium back in my room down or was like now last week when I went back, it's my part of the world still.

You always like to go back there.

A lot of memories I started when I was seven in my local club my town I grew up my

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