THE question of whether Anfield should be the subject of naming rights has recently cropped up so here is a suggestion: rebrand the stadium as the ‘Stanley Park Medical Centre’.

THROUGHOUT Liverpool’s season-long ‘blip’, one of Rafael Benitez’s buzzwords has been ‘character’ and for those that doubted whether his players were with him as insipid display followed poor performance, last night provided the response.

PERHAPS the best piece of advice ever handed out to football referees came from Alan Hardaker, a much-respected former Football League secretary.