Liverpool's title winners started their day with quantities of cider before spending hours in the Cameron Brewery and 'didn't know what day it was' BEFORE playing Boro in 1982... so Jurgen Klopp's men losing 4-0 at Manchester City doesn't seem so bad!

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.