AT Tynecastle shortly before tea-time last night, Brendan Rodgers successfully pulled off the trick of managing a massive club without looking big-time.
A single, unavoidable interpretation is applied when the coach of a major club rests his senior players for a fixture: he has bigger fish to fry and believes that even a team of deputies can deal with the immediate matter in hand. By omitting Steven Gerrard, Luis Suarez, Joe Cole, Martin Skrtel and Glen Johnson the Liverpool manager not only disappointed Hearts supporters, he left them dispirited too.
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