Heskey too strong for lacklustre Liverpool
Much more of this and Steven Gerrard will be hoping for a call from Emilio Butragueño that isn't a hoax. It was Liverpool's worst performance since, well, losing by the same score at Southampton three weeks ago. As lame an apology for an Anfield outfit as they were then, they are making a habit of playing struggling sides into a bit of form. Observer
Listless Liverpool miss opportunity
Liverpool choked yesterday as they tried to seize the opportunity offered by Everton's defeat by Chelsea earlier in the day.
Needing a victory to close to within two points of their Merseyside rivals in the race for the Premiership's fourth Champions League place, they responded with one of their poorest performances of the season. Telegraph
Pennant tortures Liverpool
Woe is Merseyside this second Saturday in February. Noting that Everton had succumbed at lunchtime to Chelsea, believing that they could close the gap to the vaunted Champions League place, Liverpool gave a performance of tactical suicide and moral ineptitude and were soundly beaten by an industrious Birmingham. The Times
Liverpool give it all away as City's lost souls shine
It would perhaps be nice of Everton's players to take the short stroll across Stanley Park this morning and pop a thank-you card through the Anfield letterbox, after Liverpool produced a display of such generosity at St Andrew's that it went way beyond the call of being merely neighbourly. Why, this was altruism itself. Independent