The loss of Phillippe Coutinho would not be as damaging to Liverpool as was the departure of Luis Saurez in 2014.

FIRST, a warning to those who might want to avoid the next 1,100 words. If you’ve been stuck in an airport waiting to go somewhere, waiting to get home from somewhere, trying to stay calm, trying to keep kids calm, feeling yourself sinking into a quicksand of frustration and misery, with the only hands within reach of pulling you out rendered limp from that frustration and misery, do not read on.

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Manchester City were handed belated Christmas presents recently when fellow title hopefuls Chelsea slipped up against Villa and local rivals Man United were inexplicably defeated by Blackburn.

Two Newcastle old boys will be facing their old club as they travel to Anfield today – and who would have thought that it would be the £5m man who would eclipse his £35m counterpart.