A team with nothing to play for and another fighting desperately for the title, from the outside it was difficult to see which was which as only one team seemed to want the result and they weren’t wearing blue.

On a day where mothers up and down the land spent the day with their families, there were a few thousand who couldn’t as the red and white army descended on Anfield en masse to enjoy a third cup quarter-final in as many years.

On a day where we knew it would be a backs to the wall effort against one of the league's big guns our maverick striker decided to stamp on an opposition player leaving us with an even bigger mountain to climb than the one we started with.

It was another three points for us and despite winning by only one goal we swept aside a disappointing Norwich side with relative ease to make it three wins in a row to well and truly put an end to our previous slump in form.