Magnificent Henderson looks a man transformed at Liverpool 

Anfield’s communal sigh of relief blew me home in double quick time. When that’s been triggered by a narrow home win over West Brom, you know you’ve had a rough month.

It wasn’t so much the defeat in Basle (they do that to English teams all the time) but the manner of it that grated. It followed on from Sakho managing to strain his thigh apologising to the fans for skipping out of the derby in a strop after not being picked, so you knew a defensive screw-up was imminent.

Worse was to follow when Rodgers resuscitated the “calculated risk” angle on Balotelli after a sequence of unimpressive, goalless games. Then he dropped him.