The Fiver | Our formula for true happiness: nostalgia = misery + time

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The Fiver has always enjoyed revisiting old haunts, injunctions permitting. Modern life cannot stimulate the bittersweet tingle we feel as we wistfully recall the bad times and the worse of our glory days. We’ve even developed a formula for true happiness: Nostalgia = Misery + Time. The same will be true, to some extent, when Brendan Rodgers returns to Anfield. We’ll all remember the good times: the SSS strike force and that astonishing surge to within one sure footing of the Premier League title in 2013-14. The bad – picking a reserve team at the Bernabéu, losing 6-1 at Stoke, pretty much everything from the summer of 2014 onwards – will be washed away by goodwill.

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