Rafa turns it around again

HOW does he keep doing it? On the gallows again, noose tied more tightly than ever before, a baying mob salivating with bloodlust and insincere tributes already written.

Trapdoor opens — and where’s he gone? They seek him here, they seek him there…

Weaving my weary way home from the Lyon game it was difficult to find a straw to clutch. Kelly made a decent debut and there’d been a spirited response to losing Gerrard so early. Sadly it began to unravel even before the French equalised.