Does God support a Premier League football team?   I'm not a religious man, I only ask because there has been an uncommon amount of talk this week about divine intervention.

I was otherwise engaged during Liverpool's stunning Europa League comeback against Borussia Dortmund, but got back in the car in time to hear BBC Radio Five Live summariser Mark Lawrenson explaining the turnaround thus: "Maybe there was somebody up there saying 'let Liverpool win.'"

I mean, I don't want to take too prescriptive a view of the pundit's role, but "It was God wot dun it," does seem to me to be something of a cop out for a former international defender hired to explain what had just happened to those of us unable to be among those present....

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