A look ahead to news emerging if both Rangers and Liverpool are to reach the Europa League final and possible concerns surrounding the potential fixture.
Either way for Liverpool, they’ll be expecting to get there, to give Jurgen Klopp a trophy lifting farewell.
Either way for Liverpool, they’ll be expecting to get there, to give Jurgen Klopp a trophy lifting farewell.
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00:00 Liverpool in their potential Europa League final.
00:03 Obviously, it's in Dublin, so quite a close city, quite a close place to Liverpool as well.
00:09 In terms of their connections there, I mean, if they are to get there, there could be some concerns to do with the amount of fans that turn up.
00:17 And, you know, it depends who they play as well. They could face Rangers, they could face West Ham, for example.
00:22 What's the latest? How concerned could authorities be that this could get overrun and overcrowded with people?
00:31 Yeah, I mean, first of all, Liverpool have got to get there, haven't they?
00:35 Let's be frank, they've got Atalanta in the quarter-finals and they've still got to win four more games, potentially, to get there.
00:43 So, not get carried away too late, but you've got to plan for these events, of course.
00:47 And when you're so close, Liverpool fans will be looking at it and, yeah, it could be a real hectic one in Dublin, as you say.
00:54 It's a literally 40-minute flight from Liverpool. People do it in a day and back already.
01:03 At the weekend, et cetera, but never mind. So you imagine there will be quite a lot of fans going over.
01:11 I mean, you look at the amount of fans that went over to Paris for the Champions League final who didn't have a ticket.
01:16 I mean, Dublin's completely different, isn't it?
01:19 I mean, it's pretty much on your own doorstep. Very similar culture.
01:24 A lot of, obviously, Irish in Liverpool and a lot of Liverpool fans who are in Dublin who are going to be turning out in the droves themselves.
01:32 They'll probably enjoy the events of Liverpool away to get there.
01:35 So, yeah, as you say, the authorities are probably looking at this thinking we need to plan ahead here.
01:41 I think Croke Park, the GAA arena has been earmarked as a potential fan zone.
01:47 But it's been said that if Rangers get there as well, then it might not even be big enough for that.
01:54 So it's one that the authorities in Ireland are going to have to look at.
02:00 Certainly Liverpool are going to have to, you know, the club are going to have to work with those as well to plan it.
02:05 But it could be real. It would be memorable, wouldn't it? I mean, Liverpool have had some immense finals away trips, you know, with Stambol and Rove when they got there the first time, etc.
02:16 But the fact that it's just a stone's throw away.
02:20 I mean, people would be probably flying to everywhere in Ireland to get there, to Belfast, to Nottingham on the other side, to Cork and coming up them ways, getting the ferry, getting the planes.
02:32 It would be incredible to see how many Liverpool fans would be there and 15,000-ish tickets for the stadium that holds 50,000 maybe.
02:45 You know, UEFA don't give the full capacity away.
02:49 So it would be one for the authorities are going to have to look at.
02:52 But as I say, Liverpool have got to get their fairs.
02:55 But there's nothing wrong with a little bit of planning either because you have got to do these things.
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