Terrace Talk: Liverpool - Mo Salah and his goal of the season challenge

Five years ago, any one of these things would have been enough to derail Liverpool. Now? We’re winning 5-0, with a hat trick from (checks notes) Roberto Firmino. It’s a sign of our inexhaustible progress, or else it’s proof you can never predict anything in this the silliest of sports

AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE: Mohamed Salah torments Craig Cathcart before scoring a glorious individual goal in Liverpool’s 5-0 rout of Watford in Saturday’s Premier League game at Anfield. Picture: Justin Setterfield/Getty Images

It was the weekend after the internationals. It was a midday kick-off. There were injuries, and Brazil had once again messed us about.

The opposition had a brand new manager. There was a big European challenge a few days later, and Jonathan Moss was the referee.