Recently by Mark Lawrenson

IN the end, Liverpool have achieved pretty much the best outcome they could have hoped for this season - even though the wait to end the title drought goes on.

Yes, people will point to the seven home draws which, if they had been turned into wins might just have given them that extra little nudge over the line ahead of Manchester United.

BACK at Melwood for a training session yesterday - not exactly rolling back the years.

I can't remember the last time I put a pair of boots on and stepped out on to grass to play - but I play five-a-side in Southport every week and that absolutely kills me.

WHEN you're desperate to win the league title after what is about to become a 20-year wait, there's not much consolation in finishing runners-up.

But if that is the scenario at the end of this season, then Liverpool should take quite a lot of it.

SO Daniel Agger has finally heard what he's been dying to hear for months - that Rafael Benitez wants him.

Now he has to show how much he wants the responsibility of being Liverpool's main defender.

The end of Sami Hyypia's Liverpool career edged closer with yesterday's move to Levrkusen and Jamie Carragher can't go on forever. If he starts to be used more sparingly before he eventually retires, things are going to get very quiet in that back-line.

A FEW Liverpool fans I've spoken to feel Howard Webb's decision to award Manchester United a penalty on Saturday might have cost them the title.

It hasn't. That's not the reason United are closing in on their 18th title.

Yes, it was a terrible decision and gave them a foothold in the game.