It was a sad week for one of the greatest clubs in the world with the firing of David Moyes, the Manchester United manager, after less than one season in the job but it wasn’t a surprise to me.

Moyes’s fate was sealed last weekend when he lost for the second time this season to his former club, Everton, leaving United with no chance of qualifying for next season’s Champions League. As I’ve said so many times, in the professional game you are judged by one thing, results, and if you don’t get the results that the owners want, then you are going to get sacked. It’s nothing personal and managers understand that.

Manchester United are a huge club and cannot be in seventh position in the Barclays Premier League and miss out on Champions League football, which represents failure for the club. It will be a big loss to them financially. Moyes had to take the brunt of the blame but I think the players need to take responsibility, too, because a lot of them never showed up to perform. It was an unbelievable challenge of following in the footsteps of Sir Alex Ferguson and the next person will not find it any easier.

All eyes will glued to the top-of-the-table clash at Anfield tomorrow between Liverpool and Chelsea, a virtual title decider. Liverpool lead Chelsea by five points and if they beat Chelsea then I think they will go on and win their first league title in 24 years.

I’m just glad for so many fans who have suffered for 24 years, my friend Elliott Jennings, “Boogie” Brangman, “Ducky” Basden and Derek Bean, all staunch Liverpool fans. Derek was a Liverpool supporter when we were young children and that was more than 50 years ago.

They have been through and thin, especially when you know the rivalry between them and Manchester United. Now the shoe’s on the other foot.

I’m happy for Liverpool that they could win it on the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster. For those who have not been to Liverpool, it is a passionate city and they love the Reds. If you have ever been to a game at Anfield, there is nothing like it, especially when you hear the Kop singing You’ll Never Walk Alone. It goes right through you; it’s an unbelievable feeling. Those watching the game on TV tomorrow should listen out for that song at the beginning of the match!

I’ll never forget my first game at Anfield because before I left Bermuda that was all my friend Derek talked about, the players at Liverpool like Ian St John, Roger Hunt, Tommy Smith, Emlyn Hughes, Chris Lawler. My favourite two were Ian Callaghan and Peter Thompson, two of the best wingers I had seen. To come face-to-face with those guys was an honour and a privilege.

Brendan Rodgers, the Liverpool manager, is the favourite to land the Manager of the Year award and I’m sure he’ll win it if Liverpool win the league. Tony Pulis, of Crystal Palace, has a record where he has never taken a team down but you have to give it to Rodgers because of the two-year transformation he has had at Liverpool.

Right now, they are as good as anybody in the league. They play some wonderful football, led at the front by Luis Suárez and Daniel Sturridge, who have netted 50 goals between them this season.

Suárez needs five more goals to beat the Premier League scoring record of 34 by Alan Shearer and Andrew Cole. Suárez is the favourite to win the Player of the Year award after an outstanding season, which began with him serving the last five league games of a ten-game imposed last season for biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic.

Last Monday was the first anniversary of that incident but Suárez has been spectacular ever since. I just wish he would cut out the diving.