The thing with Liverpool is there is always a reference point between present and past. So on this spring day, with emotions heightened and the sense of nostalgia hang heavily in the air as goodbyes were prepared to be said, your mind drifted back to a similar occasion in 1994.
It doesn’t seem that long but it’s 29 years now, another generation ago. That was the final season when the Kop was a standing terrace and the last dance in front of it was a home game against Norwich City. The expectation, of course, that the visitors would be swept aside.