Final outcome only beginning for Liverpool

IN SOME WAYS, it is irrelevant whether Liverpool win or lose the Champions League final.

Victory or defeat will not really change the way Rafael Benitez is viewed at Anfield.

From an unlikely position, Benitez has masterminded a Red revolution which, if not quite restoring the Merseyside giants to their pre-eminent position of two decades ago, has at least shoved them back among the European heavyweights again.