It’s unfair to blame Liverpool for being the best team: that's how you win titles | Barney Ronay

Barney Ronay - TheGuardian - 03/04
It has been an odd, slow bicycle race of a season, but this is hardly the fault of Arne Slot’s impressive league leaders

There was an extraordinary moment in the seconds after Diogo Jota had scored the only goal of this Merseyside derby, as the home supporters seethed and writhed, bodies tumbling, a wave of noise barrelling around the Anfield stands.

At which point a lone middle-aged man could be seen emerging from the seats, waving his fists in the direction of what must have been the fourth official, making wild but oddly precise spectacles gestures with his fingers, all the while being hurled back by the combined efforts of three men in orange jackets.

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It was a tableau made all the more striking by the fact the man’s own small round purple sunglasses had slipped off the top of his head and over his...
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