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 very special Liverpool Blood Red

podcast with me Ian Doyle live well not live recorded but you know what I mean from

Kiev at the what's it called James?

Let's just put the Olympic Stadium in English the NSC

Olympus I think is what it's called and as you can tell joining me here is our

full-town Liverpool correspondence both home and away

James Pierce hi a jay hello Ian and also a very brief special guest

appearance by a former friend of the echo friend in terms of we paid him money to

do work it's Neil Jones of gold hi hi in how you doing

what my friends or I'm still a friend of the echo yeah

of us yeah you are no longer a friend of the echo you're always gonna be our

sure thanks so James we're here we're overlooking the You're always going to be a chill. Thank you.

So, James, we're here.

We're overlooking the pitch.

The stadium's empty in roughly, in fact, just about 24 hours and a little bit.

It will be packed, Liverpool, going for the Champions League are you super

excited and super stoked I am excited yeah I haven't been to a Champions

League final since 2007 in Athens and it's already better organized

than that one was. That was an absolute shambles. No, no, no, no I, I, uh... He hasn't gone to the hotel yet. I didn't even have a seat in Athens.

He had to, there was someone had Nick, it was like a plastic school seat in the plates and someone

had Nick mine, someone was just stood up. But, so yeah, I've got a seat here and the stadium is looking magnificent.

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