Hello everybody welcome to the latest blood-red podcast with myself Andy Kelly.

I'm back in the host seat today because Ian Doyle is lost somewhere in St Helens or lost in his own brain as he has been for several

years but I am joined by our full-time Liverpool reporter both home and away

James Pierce I J Andy and by the Echo's own digital guru.

Paul Gore.

You're right, Paul.

I'm on I'm on I'm here, yeah.

No, regular listeners, hello mom, will be aware we did an impromptu podcast on Wednesday after the

civil second half, it felt like we all needed to get stuff off our chest so hopefully I'd listen to that so we're not going to go into great detail about the civil game here

we're just going to do really a brief look forward to Chelsea if we can but James and Paul weren't in the pod the other way

James you were traveling back from Seville the other day how was a trip overall for you

Good yeah he announced How was a trip overall for you? Good, yeah.

I know it's strange obviously because speaking to a lot of fans

and they had such mixed experiences in terms of the city itself and how welcoming the people there were.

It was absolutely brilliant up there.

One of the best trips, it helped obviously the fact that the weather was

fantastic. You know fans were sitting out in the bars, shorts and

t-shirts and late November for a Champions League game felt a bit odd. But yeah there was a really good buzz around the

place all day you know severe fans mixing mid-liberple fans no hint of any trouble

and then see the shame was that you know the issue started when they tried to get into the away and with the Spanish police

and the steward image I'm sure will touch upon but and then yeah obviously the game itself

was manic wasn't it really you know the kind of the best and the worst of

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