Exactly a year ago, the threat of administration was hanging over Liverpool's head.
At full time on Saturday another dreaded 'a' word languished over Anfield - anticlimax.
The electricity that encapsulated the stadium before the game against Sunderland and indeed throughout the first half was not reserved for the start of the new Premier League campaign.
Alhough they will refute the suggestions, many Liverpool fans were guilty of allowing their heart to rule their head on the back of 45 minutes of high-tempo, attacking football.
They allowed memories of Kenny Dalglish's first term as manager to cloud their judgement and overlook the contrasting circumstances in which he returned to the position.
When he arrived in the dugout in 1985, he did so inheriting a successful side which had swept virtually all before them both on the domestic and continental fronts.
His predecessors were names that have become synonymous with Liverpool's decades of dominance which he would later join; Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley and Joe Fagan.
Coupled with this was the backing of an astute and long-serving hierarchy from the owners to the chief executive, who helped pave the way for this legendary Anfield dynasty.
However Dalglish's reappointment was not the continuation of a long line of successful Liverpool managers, after Roy Hodgson's tenure had cast further doom upon the club.
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