THE PA announcer at Craven Cottage was becoming increasingly desperate. “Please can you leave the stadium, please,” he begged.
But almost half an hour after Steve Bennett had blown his whistle to signal the end of Liverpool’s clash with Fulham the travelling Kop was going nowhere.
“And now you’re going to believe us,” the jubilant Liverpool fans sang time and time again, “we’re going to win the league”.
Behind a row of yellow jacketed stewards the Liverpool players waited patiently to get back onto the scene of their latest victory to go through their customary post match warm down.
Eventually, the planned routine had to be abandoned because the fans simply refused to budge. But not before unused substitute Javier Mascherano had conducted them in yet another chorus of a song which has not been sung with such conviction for almost 20 years.