This is the Blood Red podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

Hello everybody and welcome to your Thursday edition of the Blood Red podcast brought you by the Liverpool Echo.

I'm your host, Theo Squires. And we find ourselves in rather unfamiliar territory for this season so far.

No midweek fixture for Liverpool. So rather than looking back over what's happened in the week, we're going to rather unfamiliar territory for this season so far. No midweek fixture for Liverpool.

So rather than looking back over what's happened in the week, we're going to have to look forward to Tottenham-Oxper and the festive period. Thankfully, I've got Mark Jones joining me today, so we've got a few things to talk about, don't we, Mark? Thanks for joining us, how are you getting on? Yeah, all good, mate, yeah. I've got enjoying this sort of slightly quieter week in the run up to Christmas.

It's been quite handy to get some Christmas playing done when there's not so many games to obsess over before and after. So yeah, it's been quite nice, really, isn't it? I've just said that the post comes, so maybe that's a few Christmas deliveries for me as well. Leaf. Joy is ever working from home, isn't it?

As you can tell, if you're watching this on YouTube, we are only a remote option today.

So no opportunities for you to get your questions in.

Though by all means, put your comments in and we will check them and hopefully get to them in a later show.

Obviously, you can also email us or contact us on social media. We will see them at some

point. But unfortunately, we have got, so fortunately, we might have a couple more remote options

over the festive period. We're not quite sure yet. We don't know how the road is going to fall

while people are going to be working from home or if they're going to be in the office. We'll just

have to wait and see it's that time of year, isn't it? Would it be in a Christmas period? But we will have your usual Blood Red offerings next week. Hopefully on Monday or Thursday, Friday. We'll see what producer Ian has up his sleeve. But with it being a week till Christmas, Mark, have you got all your shopping done? That's the big question, is it? We've got to fill the time somehow when we don't have a midweek match.

Yeah, I am you know what I'm pretty good I'm pretty I've got most of it done I'd like to

I'd like to drop a special message the message actually special mention to Hugo Eketiquet

who's helped me out with that um it was my nephew's first match at Amfield on Saturday,

and he's come away, and Hugo O'KKKK is his hero.

He's new hero, so I've been able to pick up some Hugo,

Hekotiki-K merch for him.

So hopefully my nephew's not listening to this.

He's not going to spoil the surprise for him.

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