Match report from Liverpool decimation of Watford, where Sadio Mane laid down an exhibition on how to lead the forward line.
The humble Mudskipper
The West African Mudskipper has made its presence known. By nature, it’s an errant trespasser. And true to its nature it finds itself in places where it is not supposed to be – in a Senegalese rice paddy field, and/or in the unsuspecting mind of a reader of a football match report.
Now, you, a young farmer, knee deep in slush, praising your luck in French may widen your stance, corner the fish, assume hunter position and be prepared to lunge. But, but, but, chances are, what happened to the Watford defenders last night at Anfield, happens to you: Performing a salmon jump, rising higher than those much vertically far-reaching, the amphibian-fish may leave you perpendicular, like an L.