Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

It's the second episode of our tactics and statistics podcast, still currently called Analysing Anfield...Host Kristian Walsh (who says the name of the show is growing on him...) is yet again joined by Josh Williams as they dissect the goalless draw with Manchester United, and look ahead to a huge week against Watford and Everton. The duo discuss how United's injuries disrupted Liverpool's gamepla...

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has just sat down in front of the media at Melwood for his pre-Watford press conference - and you can listen to every word he had to say here. Klopp kicks off by providing a positive fitness update on Roberto Firmino after he came off injured in Sunday's 0-0 draw at Manchester United before revealing Naby Keita has been laid low by illness. The Reds boss also talks t...

It's all change at the top of the Premier League table - and around the table of the Blood Red podcast, too. With our Liverpool FC correspondent James Pearce on a well-deserved day off, Ian Doyle switches from his usual position as host to guest alongside Connor Dunn and Caoimhe O'Neill. Joe Rimmer is the man answering the questions and he kicks things off by getting Ian's verdict on the 0-0 draw...

Perhaps Jurgen Klopp summed it up best when he said: "Both two points dropped and a point gained."The 0-0 draw at Manchester United on Sunday moved Liverpool one point above Manchester City at the top of the Premier League table with 11 games to play. But the hopes of a statement victory over the old enemy was missed as Klopp's side failed to take advantage of the fact that injury-hit United saw t...

Liverpool's biggest match of the season so far? You'd be hard-pressed to argue that Sunday's trip to bitter rivals Manchester United isn't exactly that. Should Jurgen Klopp's side win at Old Trafford they would move three points clear of Manchester City at the top of the Premier League. Even a draw would put a little bit of daylight between the Reds and the defending champions. But it’s clear Live...

Sam Carroll hosts the second and final Blood Red podcast of the week as the ECHO shuffle their pack. Usual hosts Ian Doyle and Joe Rimmer are both ruled out, meaning third-choice Carroll steps to the fore. Our Liverpool FC correspondent James Pearce is on board, though, and he's joined by two January signings for the ECHO, Caoimhe O'Neill, who is celebrating a month in her new role on the team, an...

Jurgen Klopp was back in front of the media at Melwood today for a press conference to preview the massive match with bitter rivals Manchester United at Old Trafford. A win or a draw would take the Reds back above Manchester City to the top of the Premier League in what is their game in hand on the defending champions. But the first question Klopp was asked concerned the £45,000 fine he will have...

Welcome to the inaugural edition of... well, we’re not quite sure what we’re calling it yet, although Analysing Anfield has been mooted. Names can be so tough. But if you’re interested in the more cerebral side of Liverpool FC, this podcast is for you. Focusing on the statistics and tactics behind Jurgen Klopp’s side, host Kristian Walsh is joined by scouting writer and tactics guru Josh Williams...

It’s the morning after the night before and host Neil Fitzmaurice and trusty sidekick Joe Rimmer is joined by a man whose voice will be very familiar to long-time listeners to the brilliant Poetry in Motion podcast. Nearly a year since he left to take over as Goal’s Liverpool FC correspondent, Neil Jones makes a welcome return to the ECHO to look back on the previous evening’s Bayern Munich match...

Few would have predicted a 0-0 beforehand. But that's exactly what was served up on Tuesday night as Liverpool and Bayern Munich cancelled each other out in their Champions League last-16 first-leg showdown. So was it a good result for the injury and suspension-hit Reds? Or was it an opportunity missed to take an advantage back to the Allianz Arena in three weeks' time? To discuss those questions,...

There’s been a lot of talk about how tonight's visitors to Anfield are on the wane. But one look at Bayern Munich's form since the turn of November suggests otherwise. Munich have won 11 of their last 13 games in all competitions to keep their fight for glory alive on three fronts. But as the main guest of this preview podcast explains, they are certainly not without their frailties. Steve Dawson...

Weeks don't come much bigger, but Liverpool's has started with one piece of team news that was expected, and another which was most definitely not. Recorded just after the open training session ahead of the Champions League clash with Bayern Munich, the Blood Red panel of James Pearce, Paul Gorst and host Ian Doyle react to the fact that Dejan Lovren has been ruled out and Roberto Firmino is a dou...

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp and captain Jordan Henderson have just sat down in front of the world's media to preview Tuesday night's massive Champions League last-16 first-leg showdown at home to Bayern Munich. Klopp was first in front of the press pack and he gave an update on the fitness of Dejan Lovren and Xherdan Shaqiri and how Fabinho will cope if the midfielder is forced to play as an em...

It's hard to imagine a Liverpool side without Andrew Robertson in it. Harder still to imagine the brilliant left-back ever lining up for Everton. But that could well have been the case had then Blues boss Roberto Martinez followed up his serious interest when Robertson was playing for his first professional club Dundee United. Jackie McNamara, the Celtic legend, tells that story and much more in o...

Who better to speak about the huge Champions League tie between Liverpool and Bayern Munich than Dietmar Hamann? The former Germany midfielder came through the ranks at Bayern, and enjoying much success, before moving to England where he eventually joined Liverpool, for whom he won nine major honours, most famously the 2005 Champions League. Hamann is now based back in Germany, and on Saturday aft...

With Joe Rimmer on a day off and our Liverpool FC correspondent James Pearce on a scouting mission in Germany, the pack has been reshuffled for the latest Blood Red podcast with Connor Dunn and Theo Squires joining host Ian Doyle and Paul Gorst. The Reds are without a match this weekend, so the focus is firmly on Tuesday's Champions League clash with Bayern Munich at Anfield. Jurgen Klopp is set t...

A very warm welcome to a special recording of our second Blood Red Live event that took place at the Baltic Market in Liverpool on Wednesday. Hosted by Neil Fitzmaurice, the sold-out show featured our own Liverpool FC correspondent James Pearce, Paul Machin of The Redmen TV, and singer-songwriter Jamie Webster. The first half of the recording sees Fitzy in conversation with James, Paul and Jamie....

With Jurgen Klopp’s boys away in Spain, and no game for another five days, this is very much the calm before the storm. But the visit of Bayern Munich kicks start a run in both the Premier League and the Champions League that could go a long way to deciding Liverpool’s destiny. And it’s against that backdrop that the latest Allez Les Rouges podcast is recorded. Host Peter Hooton is joined by regul...

Now we know Liverpool are in a very good place on the pitch. One look at the Premier League table will tell you that. But the recent release of the club’s latest accounts show the Reds are also in a very good place away from the pitch as well. For the 2017-18 season, Liverpool posted a record-breaking pre-tax profit of £125million. And while that figure owed much to the proceeds of Philippe Coutin...

Spirits are high in the ECHO studio for the latest Blood Red podcast, hosted by Joe Rimmer and featuring our Liverpool FC correspondent James Pearce, Paul Gorst and Connor Dunn. That's down to the Reds' dazzling display in the 3-0 win over Bournemouth that, temporarily at least, took them back to the top of the Premier League table. Just like in the previous home game against Leicester City, Liver...

Now that was more like it. After a couple of below-par performances that ridiculously led to talk of crisis, Liverpool were back to their best on Saturday as they swept aside Bournemouth at a bouncing Anfield to go back to the top of the Premier League for around 24 hours at least. Sadio Mane and the superb Gini Wijnaldum put the Reds firmly in control before top-scorer Mohamed Salah put the finis...

Here's the good news. Bournemouth have never won at Anfield and they will arrive on Merseyside on the back of eight straight away defeats..But they do have current and former Liverpool players in their squad, who will no doubt be fired up, and like West Ham and Leicester before them, they do have a track record of shocking top-six sides. The Cherries proved that again recently when they beat Chels...

The Blood Red podcast is back and James Pearce, Joe Rimmer and Connor Dunn have some myths to bust. After James gives host Ian Doyle the lowdown on the team news from inside the Liverpool camp, the panel get cracking on the importance of Nathaniel Clyne, warm weather training camps and not being in the domestic cups. And at a time when Manchester City fans would have you believe that Jurgen Klopp...

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has just sat down in front of the media for a press conference to preview the visit of Bournemouth to Anfield. The Reds will go back to the top of the table with a draw or a win over the Cherries and you can listen to every word Klopp had to say about the match - and much else besides - right here. Injury news, including the latest on Joe Gomez and Alex Oxlade-Chambe...

Jurgen Klopp may be down to the bare bones but Neil Fitzmaurice can name one of his strongest squads yet for the latest edition of his superb Poetry in Motion podcast. Our Liverpool FC correspondent James Pearce - this one, not this one - is on board along with debutante Caoimhe O'Neill and with Dan Kay, who makes a welcome return to the panel. And they swiftly get stuck into the idea that, after...