be solid, restrict the visitors and go from there.

Jose Mourinho was ready for that but, with Marouane Fellaini absent, he needed Klopp to make an offensive change for his speedy substitutes to make a difference.

The change never came. Liverpool stuck to Plan A. If either side had a Plan B, neither reverted to it and the game ground to a goalless conclusion for the second season running.

"They are are happy, we are not happy," said Klopp, before explaining that he was reasonably happy after all.

Liverpool remain where they were, on the fringes of, but not among, the title contenders.

As for those watching from the stands or on TV, Mourinho described the second half as "a game of chess".

And, as everyone knows, chess is not much of a spectatordeepest childhood that involve sloppy Joes, mac and cheese, meatloaf. She has even accommodated dying veterans who have craved that much-maligned military staple, "S.O.S."

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Kennedy calls it the worst September ever. She had just been diagnosed with breast cancer, her sister-in-law was in the hospital and her brother-in-law entered Bay Pines Hospice, where he died of congestive heart failure. That was 2011, and by December the former personal chef was volunteering, combing through the donated food and making grocery lists, organizing and shopping for the four other volunteer cooks.

On the first Wednesday of this month, the menu was stuffed shells paired with a green salad, little caprese skewers with basil from Kennedy's garden and one of her secret-weapon desserts: a Waldorf pie with deceptively few ingredients. By 11:15 a.m.