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LIVERPOOL

LAST SEASON

PREMIER LEAGUE 2nd

FA CUP Third Round

LEAGUE CUP Third Round

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Winners

TOP SCORER Mohamed Salah (27)

BUT, SERIOUSLY, IS IT GOING TO BE THEIR YEAR?

ANDREW MURRAY @ANDY_MURRAYFFT

The width of your little finger. The diameter of a keyboard button. Half a cashew nut. That was the difference between winning the title for the first time in 29 years and finishing an agonising second.

Had Sadio Mané’s shot-turned-goalmouth-scramble travelled 1.12cm further to cross the Manchester City goal-line and turn January’s 2-1 defeat into a draw, the Premier League title and an unbeaten season was Liverpool’s. No one ever said life at the top is easy.

It’s staggering that, with four months of the season to go, events on January 3

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