Pressure reaches boiling point

WHEN you have faced up to your mortality as recently as Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier, it is advisable to keep sport in perspective.

But if Houllier and three other Premiership managers get just a little tense and irritable tomorrow on touchlines up and down the country, it would be entirely understandable.

Because while Alex Ferguson and his Manchester United players are relaxing at Goodison Park, having already won the Premiership trophy, Liverpool will be taking on Chelsea at Stamford Bridge with the winner taking the prize of a qualifying place in the Champions League.