Rodgers is rejuvenated, in contrast to the haunted figure who sleepwalked through the closing stages of his tenure at Liverpool.
With that, I'll vacate the commentary chair, and hand over to Scott Heinrich to see us through the closing stages.
Let us see whether that remains so through the closing stages, which I once again remind all participants should remain courteous and to the point.
Through the closing stages of last season, one phrase seemed to crop up every time Andy Pettitte discussed his most recent outing.
For Keane to describe meetings between Manchester United and Arsenal through the closing years of last century and the first five of this one as "going into battle" is all too apt.
Few who had watched Ferguson's skill at guiding and motivating his team through the closing stages of a tight season expected anything other than a 13th title for the Scot and a 20th for his club.
Santa Monica is permitting farmers who come down for the Saturday farmers' market to leave their trucks in parking lots through the weekend and is asking homeowners who have space to "host a farmer" through the closing.
The song played through the closing minutes of the season finale in May, with the last line, "All we can do is keep breathing," repeating incessantly over layers of reverberating percussion and instrumentation.
The backdrop had changed — substitute Big Ben for the Bird's Nest — but through the closing stages the cast was the same that had produced a thrilling end to the Olympic marathon in Beijing in August.
He was briefly overcome before recovering his composure to pilot Warrington through the closing stages of the game, and to climb the Wembley steps as a winner for the second August running.
When it would have been natural for the going-nowhere Nuggets to coast through the closing minutes and the still-alive Nets to sprint through the finish, the Nets all but quit on themselves, their coach and their postseason aspirations.
