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Well they do say what goes around comes around. A few years back Man Utd fans took great delight in singing that there is only one Peter Ridsdale during matches against Leeds. Now those same fans are being serenaded around Premiership grounds with a similar ditto about a certain Mr Glazer. However Ridsdale and Glazer, and their circumstances, couldn’t be much different.

In the second of our four part series we look at the faded giants from the Mersey. As anyone who grew up in the eighties will know, Liverpool were the team of that decade. A succession of managers followed up the work of Bill Shankly and created a true European giant that year after year would challenge for the then European Cup.

The weekend press was full of both plaudits for the victors and brickbats for the losers. No English representation in the last 4 of the Champions League since Adam was a lad and all of a sudden the football journalists are acting like the world has come to an end. Let’s look at the so called big four starting today with Chelsea.

Quite frankly it has all become boring. Sky Sports, Sky News, BBC, ITV, The Red Tops, The Broadsheets, Talk Sport, in fact whatever your choice of media is, there has been no escape from the Terry/Bridge/Unknown Model triangle now for weeks. JT has now been exposed in the papers for a variety of misdemeanours, he has also lost a big mate, upset the missus, lost the England armband and has had to endure, not unjustly, the gleeful abuse of every opposing fan every time he steps onto the pitch.