Sticking together is Liverpool's only option as winter of discontent begins to bite

Oct 21 2009

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By Dan Kay, Liverpool Echo

At half time against Lyon, with the dark clouds of Liverpool's recent woes seemingly beginning to lift a little, the dulcet tones of one of the city's favourite musical sons rang around Anfield almost as confirmation that unity of spirit and action is both the club's bedrock and its salvation. Forty five minutes later, after the French side's late double-strike condemned the Reds to their fourth straight defeat and the critics sharpened their knives for a full-on assault on trophy pretensions which even the most ardent optimist must currently find laughable, the ideals distilled into The Farm's timeless 'Altogether Now' seemed more relevant than ever. 'It never rains but it pours' the old saying goes and at the minute it's tipping down on Liverpool Football Club. Whether it's rogue beachballs deflecting winning goals in, key players suffering injury after injury (the pleasant surprise of Martin Kelly's performance following Glen Johnson's untimely withdrawal didn't last long before he became the latest crock) or normally reliable players' rare mistakes being continually punished in full (Mascherano at Chelsea and Pepe Reina's weak punch for the equaliser not being bailed out by his two excellent stops in the build-up to the equaliser against Lyon), Liverpool may feel entitled to believe if they weren't having bad luck, they'd have no luck at all. Full story at Liverpool Daily Post website - click here