The 7th Circle of Heaven: Liverpool a Team Reborn!

Six young players, aged 18-24, helped Reds rout Man United

It's rare for football to bring absolute joy, if you're a fan of a club that's expected to win most weeks.

If you win, it's normally just a relief. If you draw, it's frustrating, maybe even depressing. If you lose, everyone goes insane. The world is ending.

How often does a game bring absolute delirious joy?

If you win 1-0 and you scored early, the game can feel like a kind of torture; but win 1-0 with the last kick and it can produce elation. Yet even that is just one moment of joy, followed by relief and a gentle, unremarkable basking in the the success.

It's rare that you get moment after moment of glorious elation within a single game. Even after beating Man United 5-0 and 4-0 last season, 7-0 felt surreal. That it came when United were being overhyped and Liverpool written off made it all the more dramatic.

You don't get a trophy for games like this; but you do get a serious buzz for a few days, and vitally, life-long memories.

The second half was like the mythical (I hear) female rolling orgasm, wave after wave; each goal not only increased the insanity of the scoreline, but there were new peaks in the types of goals, and the meaning: the statement doubling-up goals for Cody Gakpo and Darwin Núñez, Mo Salah equalling and then beating the Premier League-era Reds record of Robbie Fowler, and then Roberto Firmino, days after it was made known that he's leaving in the summer, scoring and serenaded to the point he had tears in his eyes.

No, this is an occasion I need to linger on, and luxuriate in, in joyous analysis; even if it doesn't mean Liverpool are now perfect and United are hopeless.

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