Andy Carroll’s winner at Wembley has given Liverpool fans a welcome but nevertheless thought-provoking dilemma: is their season now to be described as a success or a failure?

Having branded his old club a “laughing stock” in midweek, Saturday can’t have been a comfortable experience for John Aldridge — but neither will it have made him reconsider his opinion of Liverpool.

His judgement has been questioned over these past four months.

A cat which ran on to the pitch during Liverpool’s Premier League home game against Tottenham Hotspur has attracted almost 40,000 followers on Twitter.

IT was a classic, if desperate, diversionary tactic by Kenny Dalglish, the Liverpool manager, after his team’s inept defeat at Bolton on Saturday — turn all the blame onto someone else.

ROY HODGSON, castigated and abused following a short and turbulent spell at Liverpool, has had to endure constant and derisory comparisons with Kenny Dalglish since leaving Anfield; but perhaps he will take comfort in statistics as he prepares to meet his former club.

LIVERPOOL midfielder Raul Meireles insists he will be playing for the club next season despite question marks over his future.

I CAN take the despair, it’s the hope I can’t stand. If I had a euro for each time I’ve heard John Cleese’s ‘Clockwise’ quip, I’d have €4.50 by now.

THEY may have seen Manchester United effectively overtake their record of 18 league titles just 24 hours earlier, but the Reds of Liverpool were in buoyant mood last night as they hammered hapless Fulham to move back into fifth place.

IN football, as in life, what goes around, comes around.

WAS this the moment when the see-saw of football history, for so long weighted in Manchester’s favour, shifted just a little way down the East Lancs Road, ready at last to re-balance itself?

THE KOP has always been good at coming up with amusing little ditties.

LIVERPOOL’S principal owner John Henry has hinted Kenny Dalglish could be given the manager’s job on a permanent basis as a result of the impact he has had in just one month.

HERE we go again: another Sunday, another Qatari takeover story, this time in the News Of The World, and rather better sourced than you might imagine.

AN old Hollywood actor became the byword for wooden performances. The subject of a celebrated urban myth, he became infamous several years after a radio presenter supposedly announced his upcoming appearance on a show by howling in disbelief: “Sonny Tufts?!”

AS Enda Kenny emerged into the glorious June sunshine to claim victory, Richard Bruton momentarily hesitated in the shadows before joining the tailspin of the human swirl engulfing the man who had just crushed him.

KENNY: Man of Steel.

Kenny Dalglish is returning to Liverpool to take up a senior role in their academy and as a global ambassador for the club.

SITTING in the Maldron Hotel, scene of the launch of the 2009 League of Ireland season and just the length of a kick-out from Shamrock Rovers’ new ground in Tallaght, Derry City supremo Stephen Kenny felt simultaneously at home and something of a stranger in a strange land.

TIPS! Kempton: 12.10 PROCAS DE THAIX, 12.40 BOOMSHAKALAKA, 1.10 GASPARA, 1.45 TREASURY; Wolverhampton: 1.25 OCHRE, 3.10 SWEET MISCHIEF, 3.40 KING KENNY.

Lucifer Bleu looks the best bet on an intriguing midweek Kempton card when he tackles the Nigel Clark Totesport Tribute Handicap Hurdle.

Welsh driver, Gwyndaf Evans, in his SEAT World Rally Car, is heading for his fourth Lurgan Park Rally victory.