It's all very well being able to lift yourself for the big games, it is the bread and butter matches that make the difference.
No, I am not talking about Halifax Town playing Durham off the park then losing at home to Woodley Sports, although I could be.
I am referring to Liverpool and unfortunately no one seems to have told Rafa Benitez and his Liverpool players.
Afte
r sweeping aside Real Madrid in the Champions League last week, they banged four past Manchester United at Old Trafford on Saturday.
Both were magnificent displays, both were great results.
But having lost at Middlesbrough this season and drawn with the likes of Stoke City, Hull City and West Ham at home, the win against their major north west rivals is almost irrelevant.
United still lead the table by four points and have a game in hand.
They are the masters of bouncing back from a bad result and will still go on to retain their Premiership crown.
It was the kind of display Liverpool should have been looking to produce when they were top of the table, around the time that Benitez started telling everyone that they weren't scared of United.
It doesn't matter now whether they are or aren't, they have already played them twice.
Liverpool's problem is that they have to maintain Saturday's levels for the next couple of months or so and I don't think they can.
You know when you are applauded off by the opposition fans that you are not having a good time.
And that was the case with Robinho when he was eventually replaced by Manchester City boss Mark Hughes at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.
They also waved, so unimpressed were they by his display - and rightly so.
The Brazilian has never really looked like he wants to be with City since he arrived at the start of the season.
He would clearly have preferred their cross-City rivals or even Chelsea.
United have no real need for him at this stage but I would not be surprised to see him move to west London in the summer.
Robbie Fowler was probably the best striker of his generation, yet he is failed to win as many England caps as he deserved, picking up just 26.
And now, at the age of 33, the frontman who is still revered at Anfield is heading Down Under.
Fowler has signed a two-year contract to play for new club Queensland Fury in Townsville.
And anyone who thinks he is not taking the move seriously should think again.
Fowler is about to start pre-season training six weeks earlier than his new teammates with the campaign proper not kicking off until August 1.
I was looking forward to seeing England's Twenty-20 clash with the West Indies, but I now wish I hadn't bothered watching.
They did little better that they had when they were playing for $1million-a-man before Christmas in Antigua.
And if they don't buck up their ideas it is going to be just as embarrassing when the world championship comes to this country at the end of the summer.
