Time for others to experience the suffer in insufferable

IF a tree falls in a forest...you know the rest.

Last Wednesday night Liverpool supporters gathered here, there and everywhere to watch their team demolish Crystal Palace 4-0 at an empty Anfield, a result that put them teetering on the precipice of a first English League title in 30 years.

Twenty-four hours later, without having to kick a ball, the Reds were champions. Manchester City, their nearest challenger, succumbed to Chelsea to fall 23 points behind he champions-elect, and with only 21 more points available to the defending champions it was a fait accompli.

That Liverpool FC ended their 30-year famine in such circumstances was merely the exclamation mark at the end of extraordinarily long and difficult journey between the club’s 18th and 19th League titles, and the end of an extraordinary season, interrupted and almost derailed by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Some dear friends (who needs enemies?) are trying to plonk an asterisk after Liverpool’s 19th title because of the three-month hiatus, but no one is having that. No more so than had the season been delayed because of frozen pitches or an unseasonal drought, the season stopped, paused, resumed and will finish itself out.

That Liverpool needed, as it turned out, just four points after the resumption is merely testament to how Jurgen Klopp’s team has utterly dominated the season from start to finish.

We said here last week that it would have been sweeter, more appropriate even, to win the title at the Etihad Stadium tomorrow night against Man City than last Thursday sitting at home doing nothing.

We take it back. Thirty years was long enough to wait. We didn’t need to prolong the coronation a day longer.

Those same ‘friends’ - most of them Man United, Arsernal or Chelsea supporters were never short or shy about putting the boot in on Liverpool fans when their clubs were winning titles and collecting trophies. Now they have the, er, good humour to suggest Reds fans will be insufferable to listen to and be around now that the elusive Premier League title rests in Anfield.

All, we can say is get back to us when Arsenal next win the Premier League title (it’s 16 years and counting since their last, and they sit 10th on the table) or Man United next win it (seven years without the title and currently sixth in the table).

We’ll try to be as understanding of your suffering.