So, what was that all about then?

As I write this, on a bleak and frankly depressing morning in the depths of Pies Towers, I must admit that I am more confused than I am annoyed with the performance last night. The harbingers of doom that inevitably surface when a team of Liverpool's stature fail to 'attend the party' will describe last night's game at Porto using any adjective from the following: 'pathetic', 'lacklustre', 'awful', 'dreadful', 'shocking', 'absent', 'lacking' and quite possibly 'inept'.