Winning ugly cannot become a habit

IT’S the time of year for facing truths and making resolutions so we might as well start by admitting that we are becoming a tad concerned about the failure of the Liverpool title bandwagon to derail so far.

Their demolition of Newcastle caused a few strangulated Red gulps at the weekend, especially when set against our laboured yuletide showings. Thank goodness, then, for Southport hotheads and the Merseyside constabulary, who cheered us all up no end as we woke on Monday morning. I particularly enjoyed the fact that news of his arrest broke as we were (barely) digesting back pages full of Stevie G’s Glory and his promise to “keep his feet on the ground”.

“This is the best team i have ever been in,” he added, leaving doubt as to whether he meant Liverpool’s footballers or Huyton’s tag team.