Houllier discovered to his cost that ‘good’ isn’t good enough at Liverpool

IF PICTURES paint a thousand words, find one of Rafa scratching his head and I’ll meet you at the bar.

Here we go again. Like his predecessors he no sooner got the champions in his sights and suddenly the terra firma beneath his feet turned to quicksand.

The summer money was spent on Kuyt, Bellamy and Pennant. While one looks useful the others emerged from the Emirates bench to the kind of applause where the word “ripple” would be overstating it.