ANOTHER SWEET DEAL AT ANFIELD
A couple of years ago, our friend and yours Sid Lowe interviewed Bayern Munich’s Thiago Alcântara. The Premier League, he said, was “the league I most enjoy”, with the players at one club in particular singled out for praise. “Look at Liverpool’s midfield: Henderson, Milner, Chamberlain, they pressed like animals in [Big Cup],” he said. “They ate up the midfield. They were fantastic.” Generally the only people who talk about the press in England being like animals are put-upon, scandal-haunted celebrities, tired of being chased by moped-riding photographers and having hacks camp on their families’ front lawns, so this was definitely an improvement. But the P…