Jamie Carragher remembers the “shitty win” at Bolton in 2010 and the way it “felt so big” because it moved Liverpool out of the relegation zone. “It was like, ‘Fuckin’ ’ell, we feel like a small team now,’” Carragher reflected, painfully.



How Liverpool’s world has changed.



The weekend marked nine years since Liverpool’s narrow victory at what was then the Reebok Stadium thanks to a late goal, scored by Maxi Rodriguez in the 86th minute.



The manager of that team was Roy Hodgson and during that autumn, he had delivered coaching sessions geared toward increasing the confidence of a misfiring Fernando Torres, with forwards outnumbering the defenders by seven to three on some occasions. In theory, it would increase the number of goalscoring chances Torres would have in training.



It says much about the transformation at Liverpool that while one manager wanted to make it...