Oh dear.
As one would expect, the focus on Fleet Street after Liverpool's elimination from the FA Cup is on whether Rafa Benitez can survive at Anfield.
Jason Burt sums up the mood in The Daily Telegraph:
'The facts are plain. Out of the Champions League, out of the Premier League title race and now out of the FA Cup, the Liverpool manager is staring at a season in ruins. A career on the line. A famous club in furious turmoil.'
In The Daily Mail, Ian Ladyman asserts that surely Benitez must go now.
'The peculiar thing is that some people will see this result as a surprise. It is not. Liverpool have been here before in recent years and, in all likelihood, they will be here again soon...
'Under Benitez, Liverpool do not do re-organisation. They famously managed it once, of course, but the Champions League Final of 2005 seems an awful long time ago now for a set of supporters who have had to endure a tremendous amount of mediocrity since then...
'It is hard to blame young players such as David Ngog and Emiliano Insua or the ones adjusting to English football, such as Alberto Aquilani. Their time may yet come at this great club. But has the manager's time not now been and gone?
'After a Champions League defeat to Lyon in October I suggested in these pages that Benitez should perhaps not remain. My email inbox was soon full of indignation. I also argued that a win against Manchester United the following Saturday -should it come - would not change Liverpool's season. It did. And it hasn't.'
Kevin McCarra notes in The Guardian that, while Liverpool's fans have essentially kept Benitez safe thus far, that might not last too long.
'Benítez has been popular among fans who will always treasure that unprecedented European Cup final comeback in 2005, but he would have been among the targets when the boos cascaded from the stands at the end of extra-time last night. The disgust must have reflected the fact that Reading had been in contention throughout...
'It would, of course, be terrifyingly difficult to name a successor who could galvanise the club and do so on modest means. On the other hand, no manager survives for long simply because it is awkward to appoint a replacement. Benítez will have to pull off an astonishing upsurge if he is to survive beyond the next few weeks and months at Anfield.'
The Times' Tony Barrett puts the week's woes at Anfield into perspective:
'In a week when Tom Hicks Jr resigned from the board after sending an abusive message to a supporter, no amount of PR can disguise the trouble that Liverpool are in now. Their frailties have been exposed for all to see, raising the pressure on Rafael Benítez, the manager, to new levels and ensuring that the growing feeling of crisis at Anfield is inescapable.'
Ian Herbert in The Independent sets out what is left for Liverpool's season in rather stark terms:
'Benitez's season has descended into tatters and one in which the search for silverware - any kind of silverware - now hinges on the Europa League alone. The FA Cup has gone the same way as every trophy available to his side in the same dismal, tepid way and it was hardly surprising the manager did not want to specify what the problems were, last night. He would have been at it for some time, though integral to the shocking demise of a side who were played like champions eight months ago is an inability to defend.'