Big wins, big crowds, big problems ahead

WHY aren’t we Reds happier, hey? Consider the evidence.

Top of the league. 100% record. Bumper sellout crowds. An easy Champions League draw. Rooney and Scholes back tonight. City haven’t scored, Liverpool were just humiliated and Arsenal are stumbling out of the blocks like strangers, just as they are about to come up to Old Trafford.

And yet ecstasy is in short supply. We Reds eye each other up suspiciously: we don’t seem to believe it yet.