“Liverpool’s manager has eschewed qualifying for football’s grand prize by focusing on the Europa League, the realm of also-rans. How the mighty are falling. Finding Liverpool concentrating on the Europa League is akin to discovering The Beatles entering the Eurovision Song Contest. They should be above it. Great fans deserve better. Ambitious players such as Fernando Torres, Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher, Javier Mascherano and Pepe Reina deserve better. Even Benitez’s backers struggle to support him now.” (Telegraph – Henry Winter)