Here are your Liverpool morning headlines for Saturday, April 23.
Gary Neville has just brutally exposed Liverpool myth with 'appalling' claim
In a campaign with more troughs than peaks, it was the Merseyside derby where Liverpool slumped to their nadir last season.
After thumping their chests about an unbeaten Anfield record that had stretched back to September 1999 against Everton, a grotesquely contorted term reached its lowest ebb with a 2-0 defeat at home to their most fierce of local rivals in February last year.
That the record was brought to a close inside an empty stadium will have softened the blow for some, but at the time, it only served to highlight a team in freefall as they lost four at home on the bounce for the first time since 1923.
It was quite the way to equal such a wretched record that had stood for 98 years and to compound matters, it was a game that saw Jordan Henderson join Joel Matip, Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez on the sidelines with season-ending injuries.
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'I didn't for one second' - Jurgen Klopp responds to Gary Neville claim and sends Everton relegation message
If the mental scars of last season have long since healed at Liverpool, the physical ones still remain with some.
None more so than Virgil van Dijk, whose season as a defending Premier League champion ended just five games in after damaging his ACL thanks to a reckless challenge from Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford.
In what will surely rank as one of the most infamous derbies of the modern era from the Reds' perspective, Thiago Alcantara, whose Liverpool career was less than a month old at the time, was also sidelined for the best part of three months after a wild lunge from Richarlison that saw the Brazil international sent off late on.
That had a huge knock-on effect for Thiago's adaptation period on Merseyside, with his late December return to a side without senior centre-backs coinciding with a slump in fortunes that was only arrested as spring arrived.
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