Oliver Holt

OLIVER HOLT: Even as the football world has bowed before him, there has always been a restless, searching, questioning quality to his triumph.

By HARRY BAMFOTH and OLIVER HOLT AT ANFIELD and LEWIS STEELE AT ANFIELD Published: | Updated: Advertisement

OLIVER HOLT AT ANFIELD: Cody Gakpo opened the scoring in the 12th minute before Mo Salah doubled the Reds' lead with a second-half penalty kick.

OLIVER HOLT: There were outstanding individual performances all over the pitch on Sunday but the best and most imperious of them all came from one of the out-of-contract trio.

Since his arrival last month, Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim has been greeted with the kind of uncritical fervour usually reserved for film prophets and demagogues.

OLIVER HOLT: At the core of it, for all the fascination of the ballet in the six-yard box, is the metronomic excellence of the delivery by the corner takers.

COMMENT BY OLIVER HOLT: Ruben Amorim , the new Manchester United manager, began to get an idea of the scale of the problems that face him on the pitch on Saturday against Nottingham Forest,

OLIVER HOLT: It wasn't the Panenka penalty that was the best thing about Cole Palmer 's performance against Spurs on Sunday although that was sumptuous and it was audacious.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY OLIVER HOLT: Horner has drawn on considerable resilience and dogged defiance to emerge from the crisis that nearly engulfed him and his team back in February.

OLIVER HOLT: It's an annual restating, too, of the importance of football in our national culture and of the wonderfully obsessive loyalty of supporters in this country.