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Jim Boardman and Jay Reid are back with what’s left of their voices to talk about another memorable 4-3 win for Liverpool, recorded 24 hours after the Reds beat Fulham at Anfield to end the weekend second in the table. Trent’s new boots connected with the winner and the Kop went wild, with Jay and Jim in it. At this time of the season the games just keep coming and that means a midweek trip to South Yorkshire next for the game against bottom club Sheffield United - but can Liverpool afford to think for even one minute that the job’s already done? There’s at least one fairly recent game that should tell them no. On this week’s show: - Trent: The Scouser In Our Team - Trent: Can we maybe give him one job at a time? - The Grinch: Leave those goals alone - Too sloppy too often - Goal of the season - x4 - The difference the noise makes - Talking of which - LASK - The respect European fans tend to have - Tottenham’s favourite ref - Can refs be sworn at again now? - The FA Cup draw - Arsenal away - David Moyes’s ‘hot balls’ - Should we leave the FA Cup to the kids? - A look back at the draw v City - Getting Christmassy on the Kop - A look ahead to Sheffield United

Jim Boardman and Jay Reid are back as another international break comes to and end, hoping the Reds players are all back from it in time for the early kick-off against Manchester’s other team. With plenty of shifts put in by Liverpool players for their countries, some of those countries even appreciating their efforts rather than booing them, they come back to one of the biggest games of the season, maybe the third fixture Reds fans look for when the calendar gets released. Thanks to the powers that be over in Manchester it’s not being played at the big time of day Sky paid for. There’s little sense in why it’s kicking off so early, but at least the ref won’t have far to travel. On this week’s show: - Reds on their travels - Darwin putting more fingers up to his critics - Luis Diaz and his family Christmas - Southgate and his Trent experiments - Young Reds booed by saddos across the park - Mo Salah casually winning Player of the Month - A look ahead to LFC v City - It’s all kicking off across the park

With most of the players away on duty for their countries, Jim Boardman and Jay Reid are back to see what’s going on in Liverpool, and it turns out the international break isn’t so quiet. The Reds who have been out in action for their countries have had a good week - well at least some of them - although for Liverpool fans a truly good week would be one that saw these players head home early to prepare for the match against City. Also this week there’s look back at the game against Brentford, where the atmosphere was a long way short of European night levels, and Jay and Jim wonder if there’s anything that could or should be done about that. The main reason this international break hasn’t been quiet is because of the neighbours. Across the park Everton are back under a cloud after their highs of lifting themselves out of the relegation zone and all we can hear is crying about how unfair everything is after they got themselves firmly dumped back into that zone. Having smashed past the Premier League’s first marker for losses - £15m - they carried on well past the second marker - £105m - and so they’ve now had 10 points smashed off their mediocre points total for the season. They’ll have you believe it’s all because of their new stadium - but there’s more to it than that, for anyone who can face reading the 40 page document put out by the League. We managed to read some of it, and the contents show some excuses that are, just well, Everton aren’t they? This week: - The Brentford 3-0 - Atmosphere issues, is it time to look for solutions? - A ref’s proudest moment? - International break - absolute joy for Diaz, and Alisson won’t have minded too much - Joy for Nunez too - MacAliister maybe not so happy in that game - Mo Salah not wanting a break from scoring - Some match or other at Wembley - Everton’s magical transfer valuations - Other blue excuses from the big PL verdict - What will it mean for other clubs?

Jim Boardman and Jay Reid are back after missing a couple of weeks and so there is plenty to discuss this time round, not least the half dozen games the Reds have played since. The last couple of performances haven’t been much to write home about, but that draw and defeat came off the back of a good run of wins and even some clean sheets, so as demoralising as the last seven days feel, there’s still plenty to look forward to. Isn’t there? On this week’s show: - A look back at Toulouse away and Luton away - A belated look back at the derby - A look ahead to Brentford - The Trent experiment: park it until there are players it can work with - or just scrap it? - Using the wrong tools for the wrong job - and the damage it does - How the Kop always pays respect where it’s due - Small time fans trying to use Hillsborough as a weapon - yet again - Shouldn’t match-going fans of any club be happy they can afford to go to games - without needing to mock starving children? - PGMOL - ‘See, we aren’t the game’s only awful officials’ - PGMOL - ‘Here’s another Greater Manchester referee for a Liverpool game’ - Anny Road progress - at least cosmetically - Do Liverpool need to start showing more respect to supposedly easier opposition? - An Anfield crowd will love you if make the effort - but don’t just save it for the ‘big’ games! - And best of all - Luis Diaz’s dad is free!

That lot are coming over from across the park and Jim Boardman and Jay Reid are looking forward to another derby day clash with the happy neighbours. With referees dominating so much of the talk for Reds fans lately it’s a bit of a change to be up against the side that haven’t stopped talking about officials since long before they last won a trophy. And that’s a very long time. Also this week: - More thoughts on the Anfield Road upper tier debacle - Yet another early kick-off and still more to come - How did the Reds players out on international duty get on? - Do we stick the left-back at left-back now the left-back is out? - Gakpo feeling at home? - Nunez helping his club keeper - sort of - The experts on the FA’s independent panel - Modern footballer’s food - where’s the sausage and egg? - How to react to TV cameras in Liverpool - Derby day! - Make some noise!

Jim Boardman and Jay Reid are back for another episode of Scouser Tommies, in the week that Liverpool admitted they'd sold tickets for seats that don't exist, with the club admitting the Anfield Road upper tier won't even be ready this year, let alone in time for the derby. It was also the week that saw England’s football officials prove they aren’t just bad in Liverpool games, but of course ensuring they are still bad in Liverpool games. It's not all about stands and referees and there's plenty more Reds stuff up for discussion, even if the proper footy has dried up now thanks to the international break.

In an unplanned and unexpected episode, Jim Boardman and Jay Reid had to get together to discuss the new depths the PGMOL had somehow managed to plunge. As Jay and Jim tried to work out exactly where to start with this episode, the self-governing band of incompetents were probably back at base sharing celebratory PowerPoints of all the records they’d smashed in one game - that’s if they weren’t hurriedly tidying up some audio files, soon to be lost. Where to start? Should it be the red card for a tackle that it was clear the player didn’t even think was a yellow? Or the VAR, despite clearly deciding yellow was red, getting the ref to go the screen to have a look instead of making the call himself? Or the fact the VAR ensured the screen was paused on an incriminating moment that really didn’t tell the true story? Only providing a slow motion replay, from only one angle? The ref not asking for more angles, at normal speed, before excitedly waving his red card? That’s just one incident covered in this episode. Others include, and this list is far from exhaustive: - The VAR not sure of the difference between an allowed or disallowed goal. Has he ever watched a game? - Conflicting stories of whether or not lines were drawn - PGMOL issuing a statement - but no apology - PGMOL saying a full investigation will take place. But blaming it on human error anyway. - PGMOL apparently letting the bit about the VAR thinking it was a goal leak out, rather than say it on the record - PGMOL giving their blessing to three of the officials working in the UAE 48 hours before, only arriving back the day before - Jota getting a red when his first yellow was for watching someone fall over their own feet - Salah getting booked for being fouled in the box. - Opposition players let off for clearly and obviously waving imaginary yellow cards - Liverpool set to be fined because of the number of bookings the nine men got - The Reds releasing a statement calling for transparency - Some in the media imagining some part of that statement where it called for a replay - Liverpool deciding to appeal Curtis Jones’ red card - Turncoat Gary Neville swivelling back to his usual stance, claiming Liverpool’s words were ‘aggressive’ - Omid Djalili (not from Liverpool, despite some reports) stepping in to talk sense in response to Neville’s lack of it - The Reds asking for the audio of the conversations between the officials - A performance to be proud of from those Reds who played against the PGMOL It’s the game everyone’s talking about - except for those running the game or the competition it was part of.