No New Year Honours for Liverpool — an astonishing snub which warranted the headline Outrageous, Baffling, Embarrassing in the local Echo — but the European Cup winners’ quest for more meaningful prizes continued unabated.
Sunday Times
Liverpool 1 West Brom 0
Rafael Benitez always said Peter Crouch would come in handy and here he provided the only goal of a drab game to extend Liverpool's winning run to 10 Premiership matches.
The Observer
Pole beaten at last, by Anfield beanpole
Will this man never stop scoring? Peter Crouch is getting boring now. He couldn't miss a frying pan with a cow's arse.
Independent on Sunday
Liverpool's 10 out of 10 for effort
Liverpool's charge up the Premiership table was nearly halted yesterday by a Polish roadblock.
Daily Telegraph