Spoils shared on Placenta stage - Liverpool 2-2 Man City

Beating paths to a Belgrade casualty ward
Half the Gaffer’s men waiting to be restored

Looking to brush the Blues with Rafa’s broom
First half bore the hallmarks of winter gloom

Roars for Skittles goal heard from Tennessee
Emanuelle’s leap straight from an adult movie

“Non zonal” marking left the poaching Ireland free
Equaliser crashed home by star man Yossi

“We want three, we want three” zealous Reds hiss
Maybe could’ve been, but for Lucas’ glorious miss

City equalled a proud record with the draw
A feat last seen just before the first Great War

21.11.09

Number 7
(c) Emdad Rahman
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