It was the end of a long, difficult season for Liverpool.
As the club tore itself apart with ownership chaos off the field, on it a deeply uninspiring Reds team brought their 2009/10 season to a close with a goalless draw at Hull City.
It meant that they had finished the season in seventh, behind sixth placed Aston Villa and consigned to having to play a qualifier to reach the Europa League at the beginning of the following season.
For manager Rafael Benitez it was hardly what would have been envisaged five years earlier when he was winning the Champions League with the Reds, and amid boardroom battles off the pitch and uninspired players on it, his reign was falling apart.
He was dismissed within a month, paving the way for eight years that have brought Liverpool Roy Hodgson, Kenny Dalglish, Brendan Rodgers and Jurgen Klopp, but no Premier League title.
Ahead of Liverpool's meeting with Benitez's Newcastle on Saturday, here's a look at the Spaniard's last ever Liverpool team, none of whom are at the club now.
Pepe Reina
Rafa's long-term No. 1 was completing his third successive season of being an ever-present in the Premier League.
He'd stay on for three more years - under Hodgson, Dalglish and Rodgers - but a downturn in form and frustration at the team's performances led to a loan exit to Napoli, where he now plays permanently via a spell at Bayern Munich.
With the Naples side four points clear at the top of Serie A, the 35-year-old stands on the verge of delivering the side's first league title since 1990... something Liverpool are still waiting for.
Javier Mascherano
Injuries meant that the redoubtable Argentinean was pressed into service at right-back from the start of this game, but his rough and ready attitude was starting to wane a little as this Reds side struggled.
With Hodgson appointed, he'd play just one more game for the Reds - the opening match of the 2010/11 season against Arsenal - before leaving for Barcelona, and he stayed there for seven-and-a-half years before a move to Hebei China Fortune in January this year.
Sotirios Kyrgiakos
In the summer of 2009 Benitez wanted to sign Matthew Upson from West Ham, but having been given just £1m by owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett he had to settle for the 30-year-old Greek international Kyrgiakos.
And despite his mere presence seeming to underline the mess Liverpool were in, the rough and ready former Rangers man actually did okay over his two years at the club, eventually leaving for spells at Wolfsburg, Sunderland and Sydney Olympic, retiring at the latter in 2014.
Jamie Carragher
A Champions League winner under Rafa, Bootle's finest stayed on for three more years under three more bosses before retiring in 2013 with 737 Liverpool appearances to his name.
These days to be found in the Sky Sports studio, he's turned into one of the game's most highly-regarded pundits.
Daniel Agger
Injuries wrecked the career of the stylish Dane, who played for Liverpool for eight-and-a-half years but only managed over 30 league appearances in a season once - the 2012/13 campaign under Rodgers.
He played for one more season before a shock move back to former club Brondby, but injuries sadly forced him to retire in 2016 at just 31.
Lucas Leiva
The only remaining link between Benitez and Liverpool left the Reds for Lazio last summer, 10 years after Rafa signed him from Brazilian club Gremio.
He had his ups and downs on Merseyside, particularly in the first few years, but by the time he'd left he'd earned the respect and admiration or Reds supporters, pretty much all of whom were sorry to see him go.
Steven Gerrard
The man who'd inspired Benitez's two most notable successes - the 2005 Champions League and the 2006 FA Cup - had arguably just experienced his most disappointing season at Anfield, as Benitez began to lose control and the club's best players looked elsewhere.
He hung on, of course, playing for five more seasons before his stint at LA Galaxy. Now he's back at Liverpool as a youth coach.
Alberto Aquilani
One of Benitez's most disappointing signings, the decision to replace the departed Xabi Alonso with the Italian the previous summer would come back to haunt the Reds boss.
He flopped spectacularly, drifting through Juventus, Milan, Fiorentina, Sporting Lisbon, Pescara, Sassuolo and now Las Palmas.
Nabil El Zhar
The Moroccan winger became something of a good luck charm for Benitez the previous season when he'd often come on as substitute late on in matches as Liverpool chased the game.
He was never going to be good enough though, and this proved to be his final game for the Reds before moves to PAOK, Levante, Las Palmas and now Leganes.
Ryan Babel
A rather bizarre Liverpool career would come to a close midway through the following season, with Babel having left many frustrated that he never kicked on and became the player many hoped.
Since then he's been on his travels, playing for Hoffenheim, Ajax, Turkish club Kasimpasa, Al Ain in the UAE, Deportivo and now Besiktas, where he's been scoring goals in the Champions League this season.
Dirk Kuyt
A favourite of the Anfield fans, Dutchman Kuyt was famed for his work ethic whether he was playing on the right of midfield or in attack.
He was at Liverpool for two more seasons, before moving on to first Fenerbahce and then former club Feyenoord, for whom he scored a hat-trick on the final day of the 2016/17 to clinch the league title, before promptly retiring.
Substitutes
Jack Robinson (on for Babel, 49 mins)
The left-back became Liverpool's youngest ever player when he came on against Hull aged 16 years and 250 days.
He lost that record to Jerome Sinclair three years later, and now 24, he can these days be found at centre-back for QPR.
David Ngog (on for El Zhar, 61 mins)
The French forward had scored against Manchester United earlier in the season, but he was never likely to prove good enough for the Reds.
Had spells at Bolton, Swansea, Reims and Greek side Panionios, leaving the latter last year and fading into obscurity before a shock move to the Scottish Premiership's bottom club Ross County in January this year.
He's managed one goal in his five appearances so far.
Daniel Pacheco (on for Aquilani, 72 mins)
The young Spaniard was highly-rated at Liverpool for a long time, but it never happened for him.
After a spell at Norwich he bounced around the Spanish second tier, but is these days in La Liga with Getafe.