Moussa Sissoko, Virgil van Dijk and the isosceles triangle of doubt: An anatomy of a doomed counter-attack
Moussa Sissoko lets fly as Liverpool's title-race hopes flash before Anfield's eyes Credit: PA
Adam Hurrey
1 April 2019 • 1:18pm
Bottle. A noun if you have it, a verb if you suddenly, emphatically do not. On Sunday, Anfield hosted English football's unofficial, but long-established, Bottle Derby.
In the red corner: Liverpool, a club who have spent the last 29 years like an undeterred fly at a window, buzzing and bouncing at a reasonably safe distance from the league title, their last attempt having been swatted away by 2014's schadenfreudian slip of Steven Gerrard.
Standing in the way of three highly-desired points were Tottenham, once the paradigm of a rather more slow-burning form of perceived bottling, and now engaged full-time in a gruelling, sweaty, muscular wrestle with their own reputation.
With all that bottle-based...
Comment: From 1966 to 2019, why do British sporting triumphs always come by the narrowest of margins?
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