From The Sun:
‘Looking pale, the Liverpool chief spoke with stunned tones. The words came out slowly as he said: "When two good teams play each other, the first goal is always important."
There is no doubt the blunder from Jerzy Dudek was the turning point of a game that seriously undermined Liverpool's title challenge. But many at Anfield yesterday will have taken issue with Houllier's comments.
For there were NOT two good teams out there.
United, with key players on the treatment table, did not perform that badly. But the other team were a shambles.
There is poor, there is bad and there is awful.
But Liverpool combined all three in one game. At Anfield and against Manchester United.
The true depths they plumbed was summed up by Diego Forlan. The Uruguayan striker seemed to treat the ball as an alien object for much of the match. But he went on to score twice for the first time in his Premiership career. And just to rub it in, forgotten man David May even made an appearance.’