21:57, 22 Oct 2025, updated 21:59, 22 Oct 2025 By LEWIS STEELE, FOOTBALL REPORTER

It can’t go on like this, can it? It cannot.

For nine first-half minutes, all one could think about was that famous Mick McCarthy quote, in his thick Barnsley accent, where in two little words he encapsulated why things can always get worse.

One league win in 17 was the run his Blackpool side were on when McCarthy uttered those words that come up on your social media feed at least once a day and are an appropriate reaction for any third-world problems.

It was not quite as bad as that for Arne Slot’s Liverpool but, for the nine minutes between Eintracht Frankfurt taking the lead and the English champions equalising, it was food for thought.

A blip was about to become a full-blown crisis. The Wikipedia page for Liverpool’s 1953-54 season, the last time they lost five matches in a row and were ultimately relegated in an all-time low for the club, would have seen more traffic this week than ever before.

Just like the squad plane which was stuck on...