Liverpool: returning to a point of no return

LIVERPOOL is like that old horror film: the guy wakes up after what he thinks is a bad dream and everything during the day resembles his nightmare.

There’s a creepy inevitability about the ensuing events: he knows what’s coming and there isn’t a thing he can do to stop them.To an eternal pessimist like me, this scenario sums up the modern Liverpool — in the league at least. I might’ve mentioned this analogy before — the deja vu is becoming repetitive. It’s weird: we keep returning to a point of no return.

Evans and Houllier both reached the stage where ‘doing well’ was no longer an option: it was accepted we’d come close, but now was the time to deliver. The inevitable pressure of such demands led to a collective freak-out that bounced us right back where we’d started — and the whole gruelling climb began once again.