Changed times and expectations around Anfield

“IT’S not milk they want here, it’s blood”; one of Paisley’s rare cantankerous moments in the Eighties.

The cardigan and slippers were swapped for knuckledusters and Rosa Klebb shoes after a Wembley triumph and another league win (en route to another title) were greeted with less than rapturous tumult from his Kop faithful.

Nowadays we should be pleased to scrape by in earlier rounds and narrowly beat relegation fodder for two wins in a week, but a sense of entitlement still lingers.

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