TERRACE TALK: Liverpool - A time for reflection on another bittersweet day

If there were an election to assign colours to months, there’d be a vote in Liverpool for May being Sepia.

A time of anniversaries, memories, peeling-edges nostalgia. All those triumphs inevitably rise again on most of football’s integral 31 days of the year. Perhaps it’s ironic Chelsea feature on the shortest trips back in time, vanquished as they were in European semi-finals. Even that’s now more than a decade ago.

The past can’t be filed and forgotten. It lingers, like marriage, for better or worse, tingeing or tainting everything. It consequently makes an incompetent, joyless present more sordid still.