LIVERPOOL'S season is a difficult one to assess because although there has been progress on the pitch we still ended up without any silverware and that is a disappointment.

At the start of every season trophies are the priority at Anfield. They always have been and always will be.

That means the standard that the club sets for itself is incredibly high because there are only four trophies available each season, and it's hard to keep on winning cups all the time.

But when your history is built on success you have no choice but to live up to those standards. When you fall short it has to be a disappointment.

BY James Pearce

THE history books will show that Liverpool failed to get their hands on any silverware this season.

It was a campaign which promised so much but ultimately delivered nothing.

No cup finals, no open-top bus tour and no fairytale finale.

But there is one good reason why 2007/08 will live long in the memory of the club's supporters.

It was the season when an Anfield star was born

Liverpool striker Fernando Torres wrapped up victory at Tottenham to set a record for goals scored by a foreigner in his first season in the Premier League.

Torres' goal was his 24th since arriving from Atletico Madrid, taking him past Ruud van Nistelrooy's total when he arrived at Manchester United.

Andriy Voronin had opened the scoring at White Hart Lane as Liverpool ended their season on a high, while Spurs' fizzled out as it has done since winning the Carling Cup.

Should this be a farewell to Spurs striker Dimitar Berbatov, it was a subdued one, although perhaps not the game to bring the best out of him. Aside from Torres needing his goal, there was nothing significant to play for.

IMAGINE, for one horrible second, that Andy Gray was the only Scotsman you had ever come across. What a skewed view that would give you of one of the greatest nations on earth.

A country which has gifted to the world telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell, poet Robert Burns and penicillin discoverer Alexander Fleming, among many notable others.

How sad that a fellow countryman of John Logie Baird - the man who started the world's first TV station - makes you want to smash up the very product he pioneered.

RAFA BENITEZ seems to have raised a few eyebrows with his valuation of Peter Crouch this week at £15m.

But not mine. I understand Crouch's frustration at not playing as often as he wants but personally I hope he doesn't leave, and signs the new contract on offer.

Whatever happens, to say he isn't worth that sort of money in terms of ability is plain wrong.

For me, it has been a mistake to let his contract run down to the point where he has got just a year left and where in a few months time, he can sign a pre-contract agreement elsewhere.

DANI PACHECO may not have featured on the scoresheet during LiverpoolReserves' 3-0 victory over Aston Villa in midweek.

But during a dazzling 20 minute cameo the Spanish teenager underlined why he is so highly thought of by everyone at Anfield.

Pacheco came off the bench with the Reds second string already two goals up and wasted no time in showing the skills which made him one of the hottest prospects in European football when he was prised away from Barcelona by Liverpool chief scout Eduardo Macia last summer.

HARRY'S never been happier - or fitter," said Bernie Mandic, agent to Anfield underachiever Harry Kewell. Reds fans have never been happier, too, after the over-priced but injury prone Antipodean quit after groin, knee, thigh, ankle and foot problems devastated his stay.

But was he the biggest under-achiever Merseyside has ever known at Liverpool or Everton ? Not by a long way!

LIVERPOOL lost two of their younger fans during the last 10 days when both 17-year-old Jourdan Campbell and 14-year-old Liam Harker died tragically.

Jourdan, from Kirkdale, was killed in a car crash on Derby Road in Bootle and will be fondly remembered by all those Anfield regulars who knew him.

IT is great news to hear Sammy Lee seems to be heading back to Anfield.

I believe every manager needs a good number two - in my days at Tranmere Kevin Sheedy was a great asset to me - and everyone would welcome Sammy's return if it happens.

Rafa Benitez looks ahead to the final game at Spurs and is pressed on possible transfers