Liverpool 2 Wolves 0

If I could rub a magic lamp and make one wish for next season it would be for Gary O’Neil to have a squad he feels good about.

Fosun haven’t afforded a manager that luxury since the early years of Nuno and that has to change.

Computer says no…again

Many of an old gold persuasion would just ask the genie to banish the video referee and given our rotten interactions with Stockley Park, I don’t blame them.

That crunching Semedo tackle is one we’ve seen a number of times this season across the Premier League. Sometimes it’s a sending off, sometimes it’s not.

And it’s that gross inconsistency that continues to infuriate fans of teams getting the rough end of the decision, which invariably, is Wolverhampton Wanderers.

It would have been difficult to hang on at Anfield with a full compliment on the pitch but with the handicap of a man less it proved nigh on impossible.

The two (preventable) goals Liverpool got before half time made me fearful of what might happen with red shirts attacking the Kop, but I credit the lads in gold for hanging in there and even creating a couple of good moments at the other end.

Had Matheus Cunha not spurned that wonderful opportunity or Alison not pushed out Neto’s power drive, it could have been interesting.

Still, it would be silly to dwell too much on those moments with Liverpool squandering a sequence of equally glaring chances at the other end to ensure Jürgen Klopp’s time in the Premier League didn’t end with all the bells and whistles he might have hoped.

But enough about them.

It’s 14th for us, which is disappointing when Europe briefly flickered into view but a position everyone would have accepted at the start when for all the world it seemed like things would unravel.

If nothing else, Gary O’Neil has given the club an opportunity to reset and do things better next time around.

Plan the summer, do things right and hit the ground running in August.

I’ll be there and I hope those fans that feel driven away by VAR, FFP and so much of the other nonsense that surrounds this great game will be too.

It wouldn’t be the same without you.

Thanks for reading.

Up The Wolves.