Crisis off the field inevitably leads to a crisis on it. Liverpool have drawn 10 of their 22 league games this season, six of these draws have been at Anfield and that is where our problem lies.
Credit to the team for pulling the game back from the brink of defeat but we should never have been in that position in the first place. Two sloppy goals from Villa when our normal defensive solidity and concentration had switched off.
We should have been out of sight after Yossi Benayoun's opener but the kind of ruthlessness we needed just wasn't there and not for the first time either as draws at home to Spurs and Wigan have shown.
They've all been very different draws. From the unjust (Chelsea at home), the rescued (Spurs and now Villa at home) and the frustrating (Birmingham at home). But they're draws, they're two dropped points each time and they have cost us dearly.
It was a great show by the fans tonight who made they're thoughts about the owners clear to Rick Parry and David Moores who were both there tonight. Credit to Setanta Sports too for giving ample coverage to the many banners around the ground that showed our distaste for Hicks and Gillett.
But ultimately a winning performance on the pitch would have been the best way of sending a message to our owners. But it seems what's happening behind the scenes is having an affect on performances as Stevie Gerrard intimated afterwards
And as it is with each poor result that we pick up the more the Americans will feel justified in pulling the plug on the Rafalution in the summer.
And that's the most worrying part of it all.
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