Rodgers’ greatest day marks the Red dawn

Tottenham 0 Liverpool 5

That’s how good the Anfield side were in a pulsating performance that should be remembered not as the end of Andre Villas-Boas but as the start of something great for his opposing manager.

Steven Gerrard, in the Sky Sports studio at White Hart Lane in a ground where Liverpool had lost on their previous five visits, described the victory as “Brendan Rodgers’ best game”; you could not accuse him of hyperbole.