Indeed, if 2013 has been the year of the selfie, our elected leaders have put their own fluffy spin on things with the “pelfie” (yep, I went there), unabashedly pimping out their pets for cheap RTs.

If the ball was out of play, someone in blue would dash to get it back. This was not a side licking its wounds from the humbling of Anfield or Saturday’s ordeal against Manchester United. It was the best team in England with adrenaline running through their veins, playing as if they believed anything was achievable.

Hittite is a basal Indo-European language.

The palsie plagues my pulses when I prigg yoͬ: piggs or pullen your culuers take, or matchles make your Chanticleare or sullen