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76 min: Liverpool 0-1 Nottm Forest Here’s the man himself. “Oh Rob, can’t I just enjoy my Saturday mornings!” writes Martin. “Now I’m going to be useless all day again.”

75 min: Liverpool 0-1 Nottm Forest I’d like to refer you all to Martin Widdicks’ email at 3.07pm.

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• Southampton 0-3 Man Utd (FT)

• Brighton 0-0 Ipswich

• Crystal Palace 1-2 Leicester

• Fulham 1-0 West Ham

• Liverpool 0-1 Nottm Forest

• Man City 2-1 Brentford

Championship

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GOAL! Liverpool 0-1 Nottm Forest (Hudson-Odoi 72)

71 min: Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest “Going back to J.R. In Illinois’ message about Alexis Mac Allister and Ryan Yates having a ding dong, I glanced over it quickly and just saw the name Ryan, and assumed it was Gravenberch,” writes Matt Dony. “That would have been entertaining, in a Perry Farrell vs Dave Navarro kind of way. (A good friend messaged me earlier to say, ‘Imagine the shame of being beaten up by Perry Farrell.’)”

I bet it wasn’t as good as Derek Hales and Micky Flanagan.

GOAL! Plymouth 2-1 Sunderland (Hardie 73 pen)

68 min: Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest The substitute Anthony Elanga has just missed a terrific chance for Forest, wafting over the bar after a superb break.

Bundesliga Leverkusen have won 4-1 at Hoffenheim, but RB Leipzig – who spectacularly ended Leverkusen’s unbeaten run a fortnight ago – were held to a goalless draw by Union Berlin.

61 min: Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest Arne Slot has made three changes, bringing on Gakpo, Diaz and Bradley for Jota, Mac Allister and Diaz. It looks like Trent™ will play further forward as a result.

59 min: Man City 2-1 Brentford Pep Guardiola has brought Rodri on for his game of the season, which should help City close the game out.

League Two Bromley led Notts County 2-0 after six minutes. Then it all went wrong, big time: Alassana Jatta has just put County 3-2 ahead.

55 min: Brighton 0-0 Ipswich Liam Delap has hit the post after a buccaneering run. Ipswich have been under the pump but were really close to taking the lead there.

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• Southampton 0-3 Man Utd (FT)

• Brighton 0-0 Ipswich

• Crystal Palace 1-2 Leicester

• Fulham 1-0 West Ham

• Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest

• Man City 2-1 Brentford

Championship

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GOAL! Celtic 1-0 Hearts (Engels 52)

GOAL! Hoffenheim 1-4 Leverkusen (Boniface 75) Victor Boniface’s second goal has sealed victory for Leverkusen.

GOAL! Plymouth 1-1 Sunderland (Ballard og 54)

There’s an almighty racket at Home Park, where Plymouth have equalised against the league leaders. Morgan Whittaker’s heatseeker thumped the bar before bouncing off Dan Ballard and into the net.

GOALS! Crystal Palace 1-2 Leicester (Mateta 47; Mavididi 46)

“In Ian Rush’s autobiography (the first one, imaginatively entitled RUSH) I think he says that the press conference called to announce his return was full of journos expecting Liverpool to unveil the signing of Gary Pallister,” says Stuart Evers. “Which probably would have been a better long term investment.”

GOAL! Hoffenheim 1-3 Leverkusen (Wirtz 71 pen) Florian Wirtz has restored Leverkusen’s two-goal lead, so he has.

Earlier in this clockwatch of fours, Simon McMahon invited us to name the last two players, before Peterhead’s Rory McAllister, to score 250 league goals in Scotland. I got Ally McCoist, and nobody got the other fella.

“Indeed one of them is called Alistair – McCoist of course, aka Super Ally,” writes Simon. “The other is now in his 80’s, a native of Dundee who played for, and had management roles with, both sides of the street. The Scottish Brian Kidd if you will.”

Brian Kidd? Isn’t he the English Gordon Wallace?

“Looking for distraction from the probability that Erling Holland will score yet another hat-trick,” begins Charles Antaki, “I noticed that you missed the opportunity to observe that Thomas Frank threw some Schade at City.”

Have you swapped bodies with Peter Oh?

Here’s Paul Collins on today’s main talking point: why Liverpool weren’t quite the same team in 1988-89.

“IMO it wasn’t Rushie as a player that was wrong, it was what his coming back to Anfield represented. Shankly went and was replaced. Keegan went and was replaced. Hughes went and was replaced. Paisley went and was replaced. Souness went and was replaced. Rush went and was replaced. Liverpool were ALWAYS moving forward. Rush coming back was Liverpool moving back, not forward. Liverpool of 1987-88 had moved beyond Rush, to a level greater than any before. Why bring him back?”

In those days it was extremely unusual to have two goalscorers of that quality, wasn’t it? There was no rotation, no European football. Against that, how do you turn down the chance to sign a man who was averaging 35 goals a season in a team that didn’t have Barnes and Beardsley. It would be interesting to back through the newspaper archives and see whether there was any criticism at the time.

“I know some Forest fans aren’t convinced by Ryan Yates but I think he’s great,” writes Martin Widdicks. “A dirty, needly kind of player who winds up the opposition but always with a giant smile on his face. It’s also nice that a somewhat limited* player like him gets to enjoy Premier League football.
* Limited in that he would still beat 20 of us old buggers on his own just using his left foot.”

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45+2 min: Man City 2-1 Brentford Yoane Wissa has gone off injured to be replaced by Kevin Schade.

45+1 min: Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest “I asked my brother, a Forest supporter, how they’re doing,” says Mark Turner. “He replied, ‘Ever seen the film Zulu?’”

42 min: Man City 2-1 Brentford Kovacic has been booked for a bad tackle on Wissa.

“Re: your thoughts on Liverpool 88, from what I’ve heard, Hillsborough took the joy out of them,” says Conor Blennerhassett. “Going to all those funerals broke Dalgleish. And they would have won the double that season but for Michael Thomas’s last-minute heroics.”

I appreciate all that, and they could easily have won the Double in 1989 and 1990 so they weren’t exactly staggering off their perch. But even before Hillsborough they weren’t quite the same team. Maybe even great teams can only hit the heights for one season; you could maybe say the same about Man City in 2017-18, Liverpool in 1978-79 and so on.

40 min: Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest Matz Sels almost scores a comedy own goal to give Liverpool the lead. It sounds like he dropped a high ball through his own legs and then inadvertently saved it in his follow through. I can’t quite picture it, but I’m sure it’ll be all over that social cesspit soon.

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• Southampton 0-3 Man Utd (FT)

• Brighton 0-0 Ipswich

• Crystal Palace 0-1 Leicester

• Fulham 1-0 West Ham

• Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest

• Man City 2-1 Brentford

Championship

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36 min: Brighton 0-0 Ipswich The Ipswich keeper Arijanet Muric has made a terrific double save from Georginio Rutter and Kaoru Mitoma.

33 min: Celtic 0-0 Hearts A bit of controversy at Celtic Park. Hearts were awarded a penalty for a handball by Liam Scales, but the decision has been overturned after an on-field review.

GOAL! Man City 2-1 Brentford (Haaland 32)

Serie A Patrick Cutrone, once of Wolves, has just scored a fine goal to put Como 2-0 up against Bologna. The last time they won a Serie A match, their current coach Cesc Fabregas had just turned 16 (and was still better than 99.94 per cent of midfield players in England).

“At Anfield, Alexis Mac Allister and Ryan Yates are in the early stages of an epic snide-a-thon,” writes J.R. in Illinois. “It’s somewhat entertaining.”

Whatever happened to Gary McAllister? The strong, silent type.

The latest scores in our featured games

Premier League

• Southampton 0-3 Man Utd (FT)

• Brighton 0-0 Ipswich

• Crystal Palace 0-1 Leicester

• Fulham 1-0 West Ham

• Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest

• Man City 1-1 Brentford

Championship

Scottish Premier League

Bundesliga

GOAL! Fulham 1-0 West Ham (Jimenez 24)

GOAL! Plymouth 0-1 Sunderland (Roberts 24 pen) A debatable Patrick Roberts penalty has put the Championship leaders ahead against Wayne Rooney’s Plymouth.

GOAL! Crystal Palace 0-1 Leicester (Vardy 21)

GOAL! Man City 1-1 Brentford (Haaland 20)

Liverpool 5-0 Nottingham Forest (April 1988)

“It is remarkable how well this holds up,” says Niall Mullen. “What a team/time that was.”

I’ve always wondered: why did they only hit those (admittedly stratospheric) heights for only one season? It can’t be Rushie’s fault surely. They were, individually and collectively, just astonishingly good in 1987-88.