“If people have enough of me, they can tell me to go”

LIVERPOOL FC and Tipperary senior hurling – spot the similarities.

Number of national championships, fan base, home venue, annual expectation of success – the two correspond well.

Unfortunately, however, when it comes to recent success – or lack of – there is also a match. When Liverpool won their last league championship, in 1990, they were out on their own on 18; since then, a severe drought, and compounding matters, they have been joined on that number by their fiercest rivals, Manchester United, who have won 11 titles in the meantime.