“A COMFORTABLE win”.

Three simple words which have been absent from our vocabulary for a while, but are now once again being used consistently by fans and media alike after our games.

It seems some time since we travelled to matches expecting victory rather than merely hoping, but that feeling is slowly returning.

Okay, we may not have quite extended this to away games yet, but certainly visiting Anfield is now a much happier experience than it was just a few months ago, and indeed for the past couple of seasons.

Despite his attempts to deflect praise to the players, the lion’s share of the credit for this achievement must of course go to our returning hero, Kenny Dalglish.

Clearly he’s refreshed the players through some canny man-management and a willingness to inject young blood into the side.

Welcome though the infusion of youth has been however, Kenny will be aware that it will be our success or otherwise in the transfer market that will define his second spell in charge, much as it has done for every other manager at a high-profile club.

No-one gets them right all of the time: for every Ronaldo there’s a Veron; for every Drogba a Shevchenko; for every Henry a Jeffers.

Kenny himself first time round brought Speedie and Carter to the club, admittedly at the end of his reign when his judgement was clearly impaired by other pressures.

And the wrong buy at the wrong time – Diouf and Aquilani spring to mind – can spell the beginning of the end for a previously revered manager.