TRIPS to Liverpool have always been one of the highlights of the season, not just for the travelling supporters but also the manager and his team.

If you could have get a result at Anfield – or Old Trafford for example - it gave everyone a terrific feeling and a lift for the following games.

One that stands out was Kevin Keegan’s second game back at Liverpool, where of course he had made his reputation before going abroad, after signing for us.

The atmosphere at Anfield has always been special, as it will be today, and Kevin always received a fantastic welcome.

He had not been fully fit for his first game back there, which we drew 1-1, but we won 1-0 when he went back there in November 1981.

No-one expects Saints to get a result like that today.

But only Liverpool themselves have a better away record overall at the moment.

So I would say to Mr Klopp ‘Lol’; not ‘lots of love’ but ‘look out Liverpool’!

I have a feeling we’ll get a result up there. A draw would be fantastic but look what we did at Leicester.

I’m sure the whole of the football world will be looking at that game with extra interest. Good luck to Ralph and the team.

I recently criticised Mr Klopp - and Mr Guardiola - for his comments about doing away with FA Cup replays and I have to do so again following his decision to play an U23 team in Liverpool’s replay with Shrewsbury.

He has said that not only will the first team not be in attendance but that he wouldn’t be there either.

He’s blaming the FA, who for the first time have created a mid-season break of 13 days.

Liverpool will lose three of those days to play their game but surely he should be criticised for his side’s failure to beat a team in the bottom half of League One team.

Either way, you can’t win Jurgen. Rather than hitting the headlines he should have kept quiet and not belittle the biggest cup competition in our history.

Maybe he gets more money for doing well in Europe but he should remember, as his friend Pep should also, that games like this are important to the supporters.

Pep criticised fans for not turning up to their game against Fulham, but should remember what it costs supporters.

Liverpool have reduced prices for the replay but even that will affect Shrewsbury who would normally get 45% of the gate money.

Supporters also have to pay for their travel and many of them will have long journeys.

IT was a pity to read of West Ham’s financial position recently

They recently reported a £28m loss, which has been put down to a significant increase in wages.

Their board decided to splash out a couple of years ago, when they appointed Mr Pellegrini and spent well over £100m on players each season.

But they are now looking over their shoulder with the possibility of relegation, which would be a complete disaster not just on the field but financially. It makes me wonder who in fact at clubs these days are responsible for signing players.

Managers are coming and going because they get the sack when things go wrong.

One of our ex-managers, Mr Pochettino, said that when he was at Tottenham he felt more like a coach than a manager because other people were telling him who to sign.

This would never have happened in the old days. I would never have allowed that to happen, managers stood or fell by players they and their staff had scouted and then integrated into the team. But there are so many more staff at the big clubs nowadays.

The little bench at The Dell, on which three or four of us would sit during a game, would be far too small for today’s backroom staff. The game in general has become more of a business with worldwide television coverage bringing more and more money in.

That’s good in a way but once clubs have gone into the transfer market in such a big way they have to make sure they stay in the Premiership. No-one wants to know you when you get relegated.

I was interested to read that Saints can set a new club record by winning five successive league games away from home for the first time in any division today.

It made me wonder what our best away run was when we finished second, just three points behind Liverpool, in 1984.

We finished that season unbeaten in five away matches but three of those were draws.

What Ralph and his team have achieved in winning at Aston Villa, Chelsea, Leicester City and Crystal Palace has been incredible.