Allez Les Rouges from Dublin: Liverpool's golden title chance and how van Dijk became as influential as Gerrard

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It's a special edition of the superb Allez Les Rouges podcast, recorded in Dublin, before host Peter Hooton and regular guest Simon Hughes speak at a show about the latter's excellent new book, There She Goes: Liverpool, A City on its Own: The Long Decade: 1979-1993. The duo are joined by Dublin-based Reds supporter Ed Fitzsimmons, and they start by talking about the links between Liverpool and Dublin before Simon, an author and journalist, speaks about his new job at The Athletic, and his recent interview with Xabi Alonso. That leads into a chat about Fabinho and the Reds' 3-1 victory over Manchester City that opened up an eight-point lead at the top of the Premier League. With Jurgen Klopp seemingly having got Pep Guardiola's number, and his side able to win games in many different ways, Simon believes Liverpool will never have a better opportunity to return the title to Anfield. That said, there is some wariness about this Saturday's trip to Crystal Palace, but less so about Wednesday's Champions League clash at home to Napoli, whom Peter explains are in the middle of a full-blown civil war. And there's is also time to focus on Virgil van Dijk and how his influence is now on the same level as Steven Gerrard. Enjoy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Ali La Rouge Podcast on the Blood Red channel, bringing you the view from the
0:07.2	terraces at Liverpool FC.
0:09.2	Hello, welcome to a special Irish edition of Ali La Rouge. I'm in Dublin Fair City
0:17.1	with Simon used to talk about his book, There She Goes, which is about the City of
0:21.8	Liverpool during the Thatcher period and we've also
0:24.5	taken the opportunity to talk to a lifelong Liverpool fan Ed Fitzsimmons as
0:30.2	you are actually are from Dublin you this isn't your debut on the podcast.
0:34.6	Is it you did the last one didn't you?
0:36.6	When we were in Dublin?
0:37.6	Yeah, I did, Pete. Great to be back as well.
0:40.3	Totally enjoyed it. I love everything about Liverpool level. It's great as well. I totally enjoyed it. I love everything about Liverpool. I have a Skype to talk about it all the time.
0:46.0	So I'm honored for any time I wanted to be asked to come on. It's great for me.
0:50.0	It's great for us because you don't charge anything. So I mean how long have you been a
0:55.8	Liverpool fan I mean can you remember? Yes he's been like in 75 yeah yeah
1:00.1	drawn to Liverpool purely because of the cop, the mesmerizing
1:05.0	you like the flags waving all the time and then it was like I went to a game.
1:09.7	He didn't have a bad team either?
1:11.1	No, we went to the fourth game in 78 78 I'm thinking like you know I missed all the
1:15.1	goals it's only a kid in the mainstand with my dad I missed all the goals because I was just
1:19.3	looking at the cop I was like yeah that's what I want to be. Yeah, yeah, and that do we do it.
1:24.0	And was your dad's there at the pool fan?
1:25.6	He was Liverpool, but he also funny enough because he walked in London for a period of time.
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