Reina slip trips up Liverpool

FULHAM succeeded where their west London neighbours Chelsea failed twice in recent weeks, beating Liverpool and putting a major dent in the Reds’ title ambitions.

Clint Dempsey scored the only goal of the game, five minutes from the end of a thoroughly entertaining match that could have gone either way, such were the proliferation of chances for both sides.

That it should have been Pepe Reina, Liverpool’s man of the match, who made a crucial mistake to let the American score was cruel on the Spanish keeper, and Kenny Dalglish can also say he was hard done by when Jay Spearing was dismissed in the 72nd minute for a two-footed lunge on Mousa Dembele.