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Despite the lack of calm heads off the field, it was faith and calm heads that prevailed on the pitch for Liverpool against Newcastle…
 
LET’S talk about faith. George Michael was keen on it.
Football support is a largely masochistic endeavour. In terms of silverware, hardly anyone wins anything even once in a lifetime. The majority – the overwhelming majority – fail.
Seasons are seldom successful. You are not ‘by far the greatest team the world has ever seen’, despite your weekly claims. But you turn up and do it anyway.
Games are slightly different, though it’s a fool that is completely sold on a huge victory before kick off. The comedian Jasper Carrott once suggested that the Golden Goal ticket should (an antiquated scratch card game which gave you a minute and second of the game – say, 44 minutes 26 seconds – on which the first goal was scored), in Birmingham City’s case, read ‘October.’ He also observed ‘you lose some, you draw some’. We’ve all been there.
But there’s always a chance in a one-off game. An ill-deserved three points, a draw stolen from a hated rival, celebrating because a player who once wore your shirt scored against someone you don’t like. The Pyrrhic victory.
Faith, then.
A goal down, the silliest booking I’ve ever seen and a red card whic...