Despite Fergie, young squad may win titles

IF I were to follow Fergie’s entreaties from Sunday’s match programme, I would now be offering a sympathetic cup of tea, some kind words and maybe a big yet manly hug to my opposite number Mr Kelly in the wake of his side’s embarrassingly miserable display at Old Trafford.

Yes, as you may have heard, it’s supposedly all “gone too far” between our two sets of fans over the past few years and thus Sunday was club-mandated gestures and hands o’er the water all-round. To the extent, indeed, that bits of the once-hallowed Scoreboard End were festooned with posters celebrating Liverpool’s quintet of European Cups, apparently in the belief that the cave-dwelling segments of the LFC travelling support would, this time, decline to wreck the place.

I think you can guess what my, and every other non-lobotomsed Red’s, reaction was to THAT bit of interior decoration. You’ll have to guess, anyway, as it is unprintable.