TERRACE TALK: Reaction from the weekend’s top Premier League action

LIVERPOOL: Time for character as dream turns to nightmare

TERRACE TALK: Reaction from the weekend’s top Premier League action
Mon, 05 May, 2014 - 01:00
Steven Kelly, Richard Kurt, Bernard Azulay and Trizia Fiorellino

The world’s longest, most elaborate hoax is nearly at an end.

Liverpool at the top, from an impossible starting position, rivals dropping points to puny old Sunderland. It was all so plausible. Paul Newman and Robert Redford couldn’t have done it any better.

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