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 a special Liverpool Blood Red podcast.

Joining me today is not our full-time LFC correspondent James Pierce, he is still away.

However with me I do have Joe Rimmer.

Hi Joe, hi in. and also Paul Gorse.

Hi Paul.

Afternoon Ian.

Hello and we are here on a Wednesday which is we wouldn't normally do a podcast on this day

but we're here because tomorrow the fixtures are being announced for the next

Premier League season and we are going to have a little bit of a reminisc aren't

with Joe about opening days past and how seasons have started at least for

Liverpool. Yeah it's a massive game, isn't it, the opening day?

No matter who you play, it sets the tone and I always think memorable seasons,

tends to have memorable opening day victories if you like so I play a lot of emphasis on the

opening day it can really shape the mood I think so quite excited about

tomorrow it's the first time for me that I really start

thinking about the new season when those fixtures come out and you can set the date sort of

thing you can start getting excited. Paul are you excited or are you as laid back as ever?

I probably say he's laid back as ever.

I do get with his excitement, does he go?

He doesn't.

I've seen him raise his eyebrow once to be fair.

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