Graeme Souness has always remembered the day, in the mid-1990s, when Wimbledon came to Anfield and Vinnie Jones stuck a piece of paper with the word 'BOTHERED!' over the famous 'This is Anfield' sign – Bill Shankly's creation - which the players ran under, on the way out to the pitch.
In the days when Liverpool won titles as a matter of routine, their players would have sought retribution for such an act of defilement as that.
'We were too soft,' Souness reflected in an interview for the book Men in White Suits, by Simon Hughes, which captures better than any the vital beginnings of the fall which took 30 years to fix.