Today, even Istanbul provides cold comfort

IT WAS the longest goodbye on record, and even now there will be aftershocks aplenty.

Those of us who have thought for some time that Rafa’s reign at Anfield should end have been besieged by numerous desperate acolytes.

At one time it was merely a matter of our cerebral deficiencies. Months later, with no improvement in sight, we had loyalty issues (I believe the word ‘traitor’ was mentioned).