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

Liverpool: Lessons to be learned from Real bashing

We’re not in Oz any more, Toto. God knows where this is now. I never fully understood that film. Dorothy has adventures and excitement in a colourful, vibrant world full of goofy characters yet she can’t wait to get back to her poverty-stricken tornado-battered hellhole.

The weirdest life-lesson ever filmed, but Liverpool’s new season is already beginning to resemble that quizzical return to ‘normality’.