Terrace Talk: Fitting end as home season finishs with a whimper

Not so very long ago, some of us were looking forward to this past weekend as being the first under Prime Minister Miliband’s newly-formed government, to be capped by a cracking high-stakes match against our old London enemies.

One surprise election result — and one equally surprising Liverpool collapse — later and we had been left with an all-round damp squib.

I was already long since fed up of contemplating five more years of Cameron and, halfway through Sunday’s snorefest, I was equally fed up with the routine rigmarole unfolding on the pitch. I’m not saying that the two teams were, in football parlance, “already on the beach”.