THOUGH it isn’t any of Dave Whelan’s business, unusually for the Wigan chairman (he is as big a font of bad ideas as Sepp Blatter), what he said about Liverpool is substantially correct: they ARE a mess.

I WAS just settling into my London hotel room, prior to heading to Fulham, when I remembered that the first FA Cup quarter-final was already well into its second half and that I could watch the remainder on television.