Almanack: Anfield review

LIVERPOOL'S last programme (sorry, Anfield Review) before Graeme Souness's departure is an extended exercise in irony in which, with uncanny prescience, the manager seems to predict his own departure. 'The Cup has thrown us a lifeline that we must seize,' runs the headline on Graeme's column. 'The season is far from over,' the moustachioed one goes on to say. 'The better part is still to come]'