As bad as it gets?

FOR an institution that used to offer such highs, Liverpool Football Club now deal in nothing but the lowest of lows.

Liverpool began this match below Blackpool in the Premier League table. That should have said it all.

It might be early days but that statistic alone, however perverse and premature, underlines better than almost any other that Liverpool’s slide away from English football’s top table seems to be becoming ever more terminal. This enthralling and brilliant match merely confirmed that.