The Blizzard Q&A Session in Liverpool, 3rd July 2013

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#blzzrdqt @jonawils 'I was speaking to Torres at the Confed Cup about his Elvish tattoo and Tolkein at Bloemfontein'

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#blzzrdqt @RorySmithTimes 'Raul Meireles is a lovely guy, Kolo Toure is one of the nicest fellas you'd like to meet. '

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#blzzrdqt @JamesPiotr 'It's the PR people who knock all the personality out of players - one word out of place and they can lose a contract'

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#blzzrdqt Worst interview? @jonawils 'Ahead of Euro 2004, I got Darius Vassell. I thought it would be interesting.' It wasn't.

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#blzzrdqt Question from Twitter 'What's the biggest journalistic cock-up you've made/are willing to admit to'?

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#blzzrdqt @JamesPiotr 'I think I was responsible for Dick Advocaat quitting the UAE job'

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#blzzrdqt @RorySmithTimes elaborates a bit on 'Radical Hack #2' and the Khmer Rouge document from LFC.

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#blzzrdqt @perfectpunter 'Any suggestion that Christian Purslow suffers from Napoleon Syndrome is completely untrue'

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#blzzrdqt The panel are praising the work of sub-editors who have got them out of a few journalistic holes...

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#blzzrdqt Question from the floor 'For @JamesPiotr What's the closest you've come to death'

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#blzzrdqt @JamesPiotr 'This year's been a bit of a dark time, Brazil, Tahrir Sq, but coming home from Zemen I got involved in a knife fight'

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#blzzrdqt @JamesPiotr 'A road rage incident, and the next thing I know a knife comes out, and somehow just missed my neck'

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#blzzrdqt @JamesPiotr 'At a match, the Egypt v Algeria game - even the players got attacked by bricks'.

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#blzzrdqt Question from the floor for @jonawils - 'How would the team of Tibetan monks you played for get on against Tahiti?'

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#blzzrdqt @jonawils 'We'd get hammered - we were truly, genuinely awful, but they were really enthusiastic'.

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#blzzrdqt Question from the floor 'Why do you think people buy football clubs? They seem like a total money-pit'

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#blzzrdqt @jonawils 'With Ashley I think he thinks he can genuinely make money out of it - maybe with the new TV deal they can'

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#blzzrdqt @jonawils 'Wages/fees are so inflated because of Abramovich/Mansour types who bought the club as a PR exercise. Ditto Qatar/PSG'.

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#blzzrdqt @RorySmithTimes 'Tony Fernandes is an example at QPR. He runs an airline, but he comes into football and acts like a moron'

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#blzzrdqt Last question from the first half - 'If you could cover one match in history, which would it be?'

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#blzzrdqt @JamesPiotr 'It'd be France v Kuwait from 1982 - the Kuwaiti royal family member who persuaded the referee to disallow a goal'

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#blzzrdqt @RorySmithTimes 'Battle of Santiago in 1962, or Madrid beating Frankfurt 7-3'

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#blzzrdqt @jonawils naturally goes for TP Mazembe's matches against Ghanaian opposition in the African Cup, which were hardly covered

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#blzzrdqt That's about it for the first half - a quick 15 minute break (not least to cool the Tweeting fingers & get a beer) & we'll be back

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#blzzrdqt We'll be back underway in 5 minutes or so. Remember this will be avaliable as a podcast on http://t.co/aIzw1Xu2Xu