Talk of the town

I’M not saying I’m a jinx but no sooner had I predicted that Liverpool would win the league last season than they started badly, never recovered and ended up dropping out of the top four.

And now, I find that I might have inadvertently foreshadowed their humiliating Carling Cup exit.

Regular readers will recall that as recently as two weeks ago the words ‘Northampton Town’ appeared in this very column.