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If a cup double might have dragged Liverpool's woeful league campaign into the realms of respectability, Saturday's defeat now makes the Carling Cup look trivial in the extreme. Fine margins. And even if they are able to claw back the four points on Everton, finishing above their Merseyside rivals should be no more than crumbs of comfort to Kenny Dalglish. The eventual inquest into Liverpool's pitiful league performance will inevitably begin with their sorry record of just five wins at Anfield all season. The Reds require victory tonight to prevent this from becoming their worst campaign at home since 1948-49. Dalglish's side have only won one of their previous eight league fixtures at Anfield, four of which ended in defeat. In addition, they have taken just a solitary point from ...