Mess

There is a great line in the new Coen brothers movie, "No Country for Old Men"

The sheriff and his deputy arrive at the scene of a drug deal gone wrong and there are bodies littered around the ground. The deputy says "This is a mess, aint it". To which the sheriff replies "If it aint, it will do til the mess gets here"

Liverpool are in a mess at the moment.

They may still capture the dubious honour of 4th place but they are now starting to look bereft of ideas and hope.

Yesterdays game with Chelsea was not the best game to be judged on, I have seen more skill involved on Winning Streak than in the game at Stamford Bridge.

But the malaise surrounding Liverpool now is all consuming. The first rumours surfaced today of Gerrard leaving. Far be it from me to believe the tabloids but they were right about the Chelsea move a few years ago. Like all Liverpoool fans Gerrard believed in Rafa, thought the Champions League in 2005 was just the start and stood by their man. Now though, almost three years after Istanbul, it is Premier league progress they need.

Everybody said at the start of the season this was the year to do it. They spent big and with Mourinho gone, Henry gone and Ronaldo unlikely to have a season like that again this was their year.

What a pity then that Grant has been the equal of Morinho, without the insufferable arrogance.

Arsenal are actually better without a ball hungry, sulky, overpowering, constantly injured Frenchman (who would have guessed!)

And Ronaldo has turned into some sort of goal machine, with powers to swerve a ball in two directions at once, single handly slapping goalkeepers and Isaac Newton upside the head at the same time.

You could deem all of this bad luck for Liverpool but who said professional sport was fair.

Suck it up Rafa, you have been left behind.

The Premier league is no country for old ideas.