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Originally published on Premier Punditry.

Forget the premature reports of Liverpool Football Club’s demise — the sort of reports my fellow contributors, and a good deal of Premier League pundits out there at large, are all too willing to revel in. Liverpool will persevere as it always has; whatever the current travails on the pitch, they are nothing we won’t overcome, because this is a massive club that has success ingrained in its very fiber. Doomsayers can doom-say all they want; we survived Hicks and Gillett and the Roy Hodgson era. We can cope with a 0-3 defeat at home to the champions of Europe. Continue reading →