There was a more than one moment last season when Liverpool's super-human attempt to win all four major trophies looked like it could actually happen.
Fine margin triumphs over Chelsea in both cup competitions set the foundations for an all-out assault on silverware that, if successful, would have swept all that had gone before it.
One of those moments even included the frankly unbearable stress of hearing that Aston Villa had gone two goals up against Manchester City on the last day of the season, but although you won't thank me for reminding you of that particular heartache, the final 90 minutes of a league campaign and a morale-sapping Paris loss to Real Madrid show just how close the Reds came to completing the mother of all seasons.
