This was the place where Jesus Himself stood and where He wants us to stand, not with self-constituted strength, but with a hand ever leaning upon His, and a trust that dare not take one step alone.

In a better world Jamie Carragher's pre-match claim that ending up in the Europa League by no means constituted a catastrophe for Liverpool would have been taken as self-evident.

By another measure, including farm workers and the self-employed, women constituted 47.1 percent of the work force.