Liverpool's thrashing by Manchester City was not their first semi-detached response to winning the league... their trip to the Cameron Brewery in 1982 has gone down in folklore - while players 'didn't know what day it was' when they played Middlesbrough

The story of Liverpool’s visit to the Cameron Brewery in Middlesbrough in the early 1980s offers evidence that the club’s semi-detached approach to things once the league title is won goes back a decade or two.

The club had decided some weeks earlier they would dispense with an overnight stay, saving themselves £300, if the league was already won by then – which it had been, three days earlier.

So the trip entailed setting off by coach on the morning of match-day – Tuesday May 18, 1982 – with quantities of cider on board which surprised the less initiated members of the squad.