The foundations of the new “this is our year” argument emerge

This time last year you couldn’t move for Liverpool fans claiming that if they had beaten Manchester United twice they would have won the league - flawed logic considering Chelsea and Arsenal would still have finished above them.

Over the past 12 months they have done the double over the champions - overcoming Chelsea twice too for good measure - yet have still come up short. Luckily, Steven Gerrard has provided a new “what if” scenario to keep