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Shay Given looks to have finally got fed up with the absence of a strategy that buys and moulds a cohesive, lasting back four, writes Michael Walker 

STEVE WATSON, Phillipe Albert, Darren Peacock, Steve Howey, John Beresford, Allesandro Pistone, Stuart Pearce, Warren Barton, Aaron Hughes, Andy Griffin. That was season one, when Kenny Dalglish was in charge.