Terrace Talk: Liverpool: Gotta wonder if Rafa Benítez was flying the plane

It’s another long goodbye.

Not just for Steven Gerrard, but preparing for the countdown to a poor season’s demise and the recriminations to follow — 21st-century Liverpool get close to the title, next season follows with a foul stench like night follows day.

In the meantime football becomes irrelevant, any entertainment or excitement is almost an accident and people have to make it interesting for themselves — like staging a protest against ticket prices, perhaps.