A 7-0 (vidiprinter: seven) win left them six points clear at the top of the table, however briefly. This was a day when Liverpool simply raised themselves up to their full height against game but out-matched opponents. The scoreline was startling. The quality of the goals was something else.
This was Palace’s heaviest home defeat, edging out a 6-1 to Millwall in the inter-war years. Oddly, the home players never really stopped running or became a rabble. They even played quite well in the first half. By the end, as Palace kicked off, then kicked off again, as Roy Hodgson and Ray Lewington barked unstinting encouragement in an empty, rain-lashed stadium, it felt like an act of sporting cruelty.
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