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.

GOING well isn’t it? You can always tell the season is in full swing when a certain bookie stops taking bets on Rafa quitting.

Roma are willing to consider offers for Italian playmaker Alberto Aquilani.