Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Liverpool, top of the league... Yes that’s where Jurgen Klopp’s side find themselves after they ground out a huge 2-1 win over Fulham. Manchester City may have a game in hand. But the pressure is now firmly on the defending champions after James Milner’s 81st-minute penalty ensured a great week for the Reds ended on a high. And to reflect on the victory at Craven Cottage, which also included an 11...

The brief is clear – win at Craven Cottage and Liverpool will go two points clear at the top of the Premier League going into the international break. And given Fulham have lost their last six and look doomed to immediate relegation back to the Championship, you wouldn’t bet against the Reds from doing just that. However, Ryan O’Donovan, who covers the Cottagers for the Football. London website, e...

We really do spoil you. It’s the second episode of our flagship Blood Red podcast in as many days – and fourth of the week. Host Joe Rimmer is joined by James Pearce, Theo Squires and Liverpool fan Dan Kay, who like our Reds reporter, has nothing but good things to say about Munich, the scene of that famous Champions League victory for Jurgen Klopp’s side. That 3-1 win has set-up a quarter-final s...

It may have been forgotten about already but Jurgen Klopp actually sat down in front of the media this morning - before the Champions League quarter-final a (and semi-final) draw was made. It's almost if the Liverpool manager was trying to keep thoughts firmly focused on Sunday's trip to relegation-doomed Fulham. Understandably so, too, as victory at Craven Cottage would move the Reds back to the...

The result may the be all and end all but the match is only one part of the experience of following Liverpool across Europe. That much is underlined in Peter Hooton's latest Allez Les Rouges podcast, which is recorded in Munich before and after the Reds booked their place in the Champions League quarter-finals with a superb 3-1 win over Bayern at the Allianz Arena. Peter and Allez Les Rouges regul...

Liverpool are into the quarter-finals of the Champions League and we're so excited that we've recorded an impromptu Blood Red podcast. Joe Rimmer is joined by Connor Dunn and Caoimhe O'Neill at ECHO HQ and fresh from having less than two hours sleep, James Pearce dials into the pod from home to give us a real insight into what the atmosphere at the Allianz Arena was really like. The panel discuss...

What a win. Liverpool marched into the Champions League quarter-finals with a superb 3-1 victory in Bayern Munich’s backyard. And to reflect on what will go down as one of the Reds’ best away results in Europe, we have the definitive verdict on a memorable night from our Liverpool FC correspondent James Pearce, the highlights from a very entertaining Jurgen Klopp press conference, and the thoughts...

You can’t say we aren’t making James Pearce and Ian Doyle work for their money. Our Liverpool FC writers are over in Munich for tonight’s Champions League last-16 second-leg showdown with Bayern. But before returning to the Allianz Arena for the match, they got the band back together with ECHO old boy Neil Jones, now the Liverpool FC correspondent for Goal, to record a special edition of the brill...

We caught up with German football expert Mark Lovell to get the lowdown on Bayern Munich for a podcast preview of tonight’s massive Champions League last-16 second-leg tie at the Allianz Arena. Mark is based in Bavaria, and is the Bayern correspondent for ESPN, so he is perfectly placed to tell us how Niko Kovac’s side are shaping up for the visit of Liverpool. He also explains the big problem cau...

The real action comes on Wednesday, but Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp and goalkeeper Alisson Becker were at the Allianz Arena tonight to preview the huge Champions League last-16 second-leg showdown with Bayern Munich - and respond to pundits who feel the Reds would be better off going out of the competition in order to concentrate on winning the Premier League. In his exchanges with the English...

It’s Monday, which means one thing... it’s the Blood Red podcast. But we’ve switched things up for the latest episode of our flagship show with Sean ‘Joel Matip’ Bradbury stepping up as host to allow Ian Doyle to be the man on the end of the questions, along with Paul Gorst and Connor Dunn. The win over Burnley and the performance of Adam Lallana kicks us off before Ian offers up an interesting th...

So it’s back to as you were at the top of the Premier League after Liverpool won impressively 4-2 at home to Burnley to close the gap on leaders Manchester City to a single point, but now just with eight games of this nail-biting season to play. To react to the well-deserved victory, which was secured by doubles for Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane, we get the verdicts of our Liverpool FC correspond...

Analysing Anfield is back for its third episode, with host Kristian Walsh and tactics expert Josh Williams dissecting three big games. A look at just what went wrong at Everton is explored, with Josh forming a defence for the use of Jurgen Klopp's subs. A detailed look ahead to Burnley is also given, with the Clarets one of the most in-form teams in the division on the underlying numbers. With Bur...

Your Friday Blood Red podcast is in and stand-in host Paul Gorst is joined by ECHO sportsdesk new boy Sean Bradbury and our Liverpool FC correspondent, both home and away, James Pearce, who kicks us off by giving us the lowdown on Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's return to action with the Under-23s, and when and what impact he will have when he's back in first-team combat. Dejan Lovren is closer to doing...

Jurgen Klopp was back in front of the media at Melwood this morning for his pre-Burnley press conference - and you can listen to every word the Liverpool manager had to say here. Klopp talks Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's return to action with the Under-23s, what it means that Manchester City are now in front in the title race, and his falling out with Sean Dyche and the threat posed by the Burnley bos...

Neil Fitzmaurice is joined by Dan Kay and debutant Sean Bradbury for the latest episode of Poetry in Motion. The Merseyside derby is debated, as is Jurgen Klopp’s midfield selection for the drab stalemate, before the panel wonder how Liverpool will react to becoming the chasers in the title race. The absence of Naby Keita and Xherdan Shaqiri from the starting line-up as well as Mohamed Salah’s for...

The dust has settled on the Merseyside derby and, while it still feels like two points dropped, the Liverpool fans who make up the latest View from the Kop podcast panel are remaining upbeat. And it’s a new-look panel with regular Paul Philbin join by two guests who were visiting the Liverpool ECHO office for the day – Nigel Railton, who is the CEO of Camelot, the operators of the National Lottery...

Welcome to the Academy Show, hosted by Paul Wheelock, and featuring our Liverpool FC reporter Ian Doyle, and Post-Game and View from the Kop regular Matt Addison. Matt is also a regular down at the Academy in Kirkby and he joins Paul to talk the big win for the Under 18s that maintained their lead at the top of the U18 Premier League North table – and set up a huge week that will see their fight f...

It's the post-Merseyside derby Blood Red podcast and, while Everton may have celebrated a draw in their 'World Cup final', the mood of our panel is downbeat. There's no suggesting that Liverpool have 'bottled' their title chances, but equally there is no doubting that James Pearce, Paul Gorst and Theo Squires, who join host Joe Rimmer for your Monday must-listen, think it was very much two points...

So, a 19th straight match without defeat to Everton. But there was no getting away from the fact that the 0-0 draw at Goodison Park felt like two points dropped in the context of a title race that Manchester City lead once again. Or is that too negative a take on what was always expected to be Liverpool’s toughest remaining away assignment? To try to answer that question, and more besides, we get...

Fancy some pre-Merseyside derby Liverpool FC listening? Well, you’re in luck as Peter Hooton returns with his brilliant Allez Les Rouges podcast. For this latest must-listen episode Peter is joined by Steph Jones, an Anfield season-ticket holder and writer, author and journalist Simon Hughes, and Accrington Stanley’s miracle-working manager John Coleman. But before they get stuck into Sunday’s hug...

What a difference a few days make. There was no change in Liverpool's position in the Premier League - top - from Sunday afternoon to Wednesday night. But there is no question that the mood has been lifted by the Reds' five-goal demolition of Watford at Anfield. And it's against that backdrop, with a huge Merseyside derby at Goodison Park to come this weekend, that your latest Blood Red podcast is...

Not long to go now, Reds. And Jurgen Klopp has just whetted the appetite for the huge Merseyside derby with Everton by previewing the short trip to Goodison Park in his press conference at Melwood. He talks what the midweek thumping of Watford will do for his table-topping side's confidence and why the atmosphere on Sunday should bring the best out of them. Klopp also gives an update on Roberto Fi...

Now that was more like it. Table-topping Liverpool came in for criticism in some quarters for their performance in Sunday's 0-0 draw at Manchester United. But there could have been no complaints with Jurgen Klopp's Redmen on Wednesday night as they thrashed Watford 5-0 to return to winning ways in style. The Post-Game podcast, as always, starts with the considered thoughts of our Liverpool FC corr...

One point clear at the top with 11 games of what could be a historic Premier League season left to play. As Jurgen Klopp said at his press conference on Tuesday, this is ‘pure opportunity’ for his Liverpool side. But you would have been forgiven for thinking the Reds have bottled their chances of landing a first title since 1990 judging by the reaction in some quarters to Sunday’s 0-0 draw with Ma...