Terrace Talk: Liverpool - It’s highs and low lows for Anfield fans

Win an FA Cup derby in the last few minutes, with a goal scored by a defender for whom you paid a world record fee, and go 17 games unbeaten.

How, then, do you infuriate millions of people less than 24 hours later? Easy. Liverpool make head-wrecking an art form. They are the Picassos of pandemonium. It’s really quite something.

Coutinho was going. Most of us knew it, but still clutched any old straw to pretend the club had a plan. We’re special that way.