Terrace Talk: Man City - More Anfield misery as they forget to turn VAR machines on

Leafing through the Bumper Book of City Swear Words, it is sometimes easy to forget how those well-thumbed pages, with their dubious-looking smudges and deeply ingrained tearstains, got so grubby. It is a body of work that has, on the whole, not been needed much of late, as City have cantered through season after season of gentle trophy gathering.

It gets a dusting down once a year, however, during the annual pilgrimage to Anfield, where something always happens to make people go purple in the face.