Recently by Brendan Leary

I'm stating the obvious to say Suarez and Maxi were eye-catching at ths sharp end of things on Monday.

What's less apparent is that their fine work obscured the real star of the show: Lucas.

Look again at the tape, Reds fans - you owe watching that game again to yourself anyway, after suffering through half a season of Hodgson's Tripe (TM).

What you'll see on replay is FOUR - count 'em - defence splitters from our number 21.

The Carragher tackle on Nani has prompted some outright hysteria from the likes of James Lawton in the Independent and the poor sensitive paranoid androids on the Republik of Mancunia website.

The views they have expressed - such the idea this was one of the worst fouls in recent memory - are outright unbalanced and as well as lacking in clarity.

US sports have a great term for those who consistently deliver when the game is on the line: a clutch player.

We are about to find out if JW Henry has the big play in him at the big time.

It may be that the club have broken promises they made you. But now you have broken your word to the fans.

You are alleged to want a deal advantageous to both the club and yourself.

Yet you've tried to corner us in the closing days of this transfer window, at a time when both Madrid and Barcelona are financially hamstrung. There's no advantageous circumstances there for us.

So if LFC do what's right, they'll make you sweat and announce to all and sundry the issue will be revisited in the summer.

Don't be surprised if we accept Madrid's offer ahead of others.

After all, what's one more betrayal on top of another?

Roy Hodgson is the choice of Christian Purslow, Martin Broughton, Hicks and Gillett. He's not the Kop's man, never was, and it never should have thought he would be.

So why is he still here?

Fenway Sports Group need to consign the Hodgson mistake to our immediate murky past immediately. In his place, they should take a key idea from our glorious past.