Rafa, our sympathy is at a premium

I WONDER why we never talk about the lucky Liverpool teams, just the successful ones.

Maybe it’s because the two can never be separated.

It’s bizarre that the role of good fortune in a club’s history varies in importance so much depending on whom you speak to. Our enemies decide that it’s all we’ve got in our favour, while the very idea of Lady Luck ever hitching her skirts in our direction fills every Red with outrage. The reality as ever lies somewhere in-between.