At Anfield this week they have been handing out league championship medals to ex-players who – because of old rules – weren’t deemed to have played enough games at the time.
It was quite a line up. Two of them – Terry McDermott and Alan Kennedy – have both scored goals in European Cup finals for Liverpool. Others – like David Fairclough and Jan Molby – are buried deep in the club’s folklore for different reasons.
Nevertheless, down the East Lancs Road (though it’s quicker to take the M62 these days) at Manchester United they would once have laughed at this.