Falling In Love With A Loan Player… | Redmen Originals Liverpool Podcast

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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Paul Machin (0:53)

Thank you. I'm making his originals debut. We've got Joseph Roberts. Most of you will already know who he is, because if you've got Instagram, and you're in the Liverpool bubble, it's impossible not to know who this man is. But if you don't, he is a Liverpoolian poet. He has got a book coming out as well, which we're going to talk about a little bit more, but he's worked with the likes of TMT Sport and Amazon. And yeah, he's absolutely taken over the world. Did a bit with Nike as well. Good to see. With the lolly ice lolly.

Good to see stuff. So yeah, we've got Joseph in here with us as well.

No pressure on you to make any of your analysis of the match rhyme or follow any type of particular stances. But there will be that pressure from the audience. So like, yeah, I'm expecting great things. No, we're not looking for Lennox. We are looking for light-hearted Liverpool entertainments. This is what we'll do. We are going to be discussing Villarreal a little bit, mainly Brighton from yesterday. We'll take a break. Then we're going to go through Joseph on his new book and see if we can convince him to do part of it for us here for the very first time. And then we're going to look at Arsenal at the weekend, which is big.

Chris Pajak (2:05)

Big, but also after Chelsea.

Paul Machin (2:07)

Oh yeah, sorry.

SPEAKER_4 (2:09)

Which one's more important, Paul?

Paul Machin (2:11)

Specifically with Arsenal on the horizon.

Chris Pajak (2:14)

Both are big.

Paul Machin (2:15)

I would have realised that when I eventually read my agenda and realised it does say that in there. But yeah, anyway, regardless, we'll come to both of those football matches. Let's do it then. Look, ultimately, Chris, Villarreal was not quite as straightforward a walk in the park as any of us wanted or needed.

But, you know, it's interesting how these games go sometimes because, as Joseph was saying, that first half was hard and it wasn't what we wanted. I just had this overriding memory for being a really good week. And I think that's almost the point to take out of this, is that some of the finer details of how these wins are achieved will actually be lost in time. It will just be remembered that Liverpool did have a good week, another good week back to back, really, where we're picking up wins across competitions and actually starting to look forward and look upward with far more optimism than maybe two or three weeks ago.

Chris Pajak (3:08)

Yeah, I don't care how you get the wins, ultimately you do. You want to get three points in the Champions League, you want to get three points in the Premier League. You do want to play better, you do want to play well for 90 minutes at times or, you know, more than 45 minutes like the Villarreal game. It was a stinker of a first half, wasn't it? So, we can't gloss over that. But the fact is, what we are showing is a lot of mental fortitude over the last sort of few weeks. We've gone behind in games, we've fought back in games, we've won games, we've played good teams along the way and we've managed to get over the line. And that is, that I think is the start of something. You know, you're looking for effort, you're looking for desire, discipline, everything else. But you're also looking for a bit of that mentality monsters back from a few seasons ago where these players aren't down and out because I think previously we've all thought, haven't we, that you've got a goal ahead against Liverpool last season and the game's gone, Liverpool's players aren't getting back into it. So now I think teams are realising that this Liverpool team will go until the last minute and will try and do everything they can to get the points and that's the start of something special for me.

Paul Machin (4:08)