Oh Liverpool.

On the back of the penultimate game of the 2008-09 season which culminated in a 0-2 win over West Brom, and relegating them.

We played like crap today, and at one point Carragher got so pissed with Arbeloa he looked like he wanna beat the daylight out of him too, but settled for a few shoves after Alonso mediated. They are all teammates by the way. It's disappointing in the fact that we didn't get a 3rd goal. That would have been the 7th straight game we scored 3 or more goals, extending the record of 6 games from the current streak.

I dun usually do this but hey, why not. This is about the best team we've had since the swashbuckling, though sometimes just buckling, flamboyant days of '96. Here's my first XI, and prolly Rafa's too, in a 4-2-3-1 formation:

Pepe Reina

Alvaro Arbeloa, Jamie Carragher, Martin Skrtel, Emiliano Insua

Xabi Alonso, Javier Mascherano

Dirk Kuyt, Steven Gerrard, Yossi Benayoun

Fernando Torres

And good bye Sami Hyypia, it's been a pleasure.