Kev Reilly

Once you get ahead, they're almost saying, just beat us.

Whatever they're taking, just come and beat us.

And yet, Liverpool find a way to go into the shell and that's how it looked for the rest of the first half.

Yeah, I think that's totally fair.

I think...

I suppose if you are on the outside looking in and you are maybe a fan of another club and you go, well, Liverpool won the league last year and they're probably going to finish fourth or fifth this year and get into the Champions League, they might be thinking, well, how entitled are you?

But I think if you're living and breathing it, there's been a direction of travel now for a long time where, and I've said this before on shows, you can't kid supporters, you can't kid fans.

They know what they're watching and what they're watching is...

It's a pale imitation of a football team, and certainly a Liverpool team.

It's hard to remember a team who's been so backward in coming forward.

You never like to throw words around like cowards and stuff like that, but there's been times where you watch them and it does feel a bit cowardly.

That on the weekend felt a bit cowardly, the way they all just retreated.

And a lot of that's got to come from the guy in charge.

It does.

And I'm not letting the players off the hook, by the way.

I think there's been a lot of them this season who've saved up performances that are so far away from what you expect.

I actually thought at the weekend there was almost a little bit of...

you know, stuff there going on with it, it felt a bit performative, to be honest.

You know, McAllister suddenly going in and throwing in a couple of crunches after he's, like, knocked back this meet-up for the sixth or seventh time.

I'm thinking, I'm not sure you're doing that because that's what you want to be doing.