Back of the Net takes a weekly look around the A-League with visiting EPL giants all the rage Steven Gerrard salutes the MCG crowd after Liverpool down Melbourne Victory. MANCHESTER United and Liverpools recent tours of Sydney and Melbourne were all-round winners for the A-League, its fans and TV ratings. With 178,573 fans filing into ANZ Stadium and the MCG to watch Man U and Liverpool, Channel 7 and its TV sister 7Mate - broke ratings records. The Man U v Foxtel A-League All Stars clash attracted 737,725 viewers on Channel 7 (in Sydney, Perth and Brisbane) and 7Mate in Melbourne and Adelaide. Liverpool's clash against Melbourne Victory was featured just on 7Mate but it still claimed record ratings when 588,820 tuned in across the five major cities of Australia. Man U pulled in an average of 376,698 viewers in Sydney. The clash easily beat the Ashes cricket viewer ratings on GEM on Saturday night. BUT the most glaring blip in both clashes was the state of the pitches. Sure both stadiums do have other codes playing on them but when you consider that both 'Colosseums' are considered to be the best in the nation, the pitch quality failed miserably. LIVERPOOL Echo football scribe James Pearce - a man who knows what's going on at Anfield - used Twitter to claim that Australia should brace itself for another dose of Liverpool in two years: "About to leave Melbourne after a brilliant 4 days. Took LFC 121 years to head Down Under, got a feeling they will be back again in 2015," he tweeted. Liverpool is expected to tour the US during next year's preseason tour. MARK Bosnich didn't hold back on FoxSports on Sunday night. And Socceroos coach Holger Osieck will surely disagree with Bozza's attack on the timing of the East Asian Cup and the friendlies which attracted two of England's biggest clubs to Australia over the past week. The former Man U gloveman claimed Melbourne Victory's Socceroos trio - Archie Thompson, Mitch Nichols and Mark Milligan - would have preferred to face Liverpool this week rather than represent the Socceroos during the East Asian Cup tournament. The trio played in last night's 3-2 loss to Japan in South Korea. MILLIGAN the current Socceroos skipper in South Korea is happy to stay put in Melbourne after being linked with a $1 million move to QPR since June. I haven't heard about QPR in a long time. I've made it very clear that I am very happy in Melbourne," he said. It's a very important year for me ... to move would be quite a risk I think, especially when I'm so settled and happy where I am. NEW Western Sydney Wanderers and Socceroos striker Tomi Juric seems to have the knack of making an immediate impact in new football surrounds. Juric has now incredibly scored with what appeared to be his first touch twice in big matches. He did it last night with the Socceroos just five months after his first touch was a goal for Adelaide United during a loan stint in a 2-1 loss to Sydney FC in Sydney. Incredibly both goals were struck with his left peg from about the same 18m distance.