FIRST, for those frantically looking for omens, the good news.
In 1963, Liverpool lost four of their first nine games but still ended the season being crowned champions.
Hopefully that has brought a smile of sorts to your face because there are very few crumbs of comfort in what is about to follow; Liverpool’s campaign, you see, is careering towards crisis point.
Inevitably, most post-match chatter centred around Darren Bent’s farcical goal which sank Rafa Benitez’s men and, in many ways, there was something symbolic about the incident now being labelled ‘beach-ball gate’.
That big red ball, after all, was deliberately tossed onto the pitch from the visiting section – as proven by television replays – and while it may have been done in jest, the action led to a calamity; no defeat hurts more than the kind that is self-inflicted.
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