Were Liverpool’s last three results a reasonable pointer or yet another wicked tease for City fans used to minute crumbs from trips to this part of the world?

MILLDEAN Panther was yesterday withdrawn from the Comerford Cakes National Puppy Stake at Shelbourne Park and has been retired for the winter.

The skipper of the crippled destroyer HMS Nottingham flew on board his £300m (€467m) only three minutes before it crashed into rocks off Australia, it was reported tonight.