Terrace Talk: That 7-0 win seems like ancient history for Liverpool fans

Jurgen Klopp's side are spectators in the season's drama.

WATCHING ON: Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp salutes the crowd at the Etihad Stadium. Picture: Mike Egerton/PA Wire.

It’s a month since Liverpool slammed seven past United. Checking the highlights recently, I expected them to be in monochrome, such is the enormous change of fortune since.

Tom Stoppard wrote a whole play about two minor characters in Hamlet. I’m no Stoppard evidently but transcribing Liverpool’s season has similar grisly overtones; we’re minor plot points in a major drama. It’ll take some getting used to.