Gunners will win long war

NOT everyone on Merseyside is celebrating Tuesday night’s extraordinary victory over Arsenal.

I didn’t get the name of the taxi driver who ferried me to John Lennon Airport yesterday but “Livid Of Liverpool” will probably do. “Jammy” and “dodgy” were the most reader-friendly terms he employed to sum up the win at Anfield. And, anyway, he insisted, they only won it in the end because of a generous referee. I mean, he continued, Steven Gerrard had done nothing until he converted from the spot. Fernando Torres, his great strike aside, had done little more. For long periods of the game, Arsenal had basically played them off the park.

“I really hope Man United do them in the final,” he concluded, as a happy picture suddenly formed in his mind. “And Wayne Rooney scores the winner.”