Terrace Talk: Ticker takes beating but at least the lucky ‘neutrals’ are thrilled

Got any beta blockers? My season’s supply ran out and it’s only February.

Not sure I can take much more of this. I’ve never believed in the idea of ‘The Neutral’, that shadowy fan of ‘sports’ and figment of TV producers’ imaginations, but if such creatures exist they’ve had more than their money’s worth out of Liverpool by now.

It had already been a frenetic week for everybody else. Under pressure of European failure and criticism over verbal diarrhoea Pellegrini, Wenger and Mourinho weren’t in the best of moods. So Rodgers was the quiet one all along? Who knew?