With the sun in their eyes and a welcoming breeze from the River Thames to their left, the travelling Kop sang with a significant volume: ‘And now you’re gonna believe us, we’re gonna win the league’.
They will indeed win the Premier League. But based on watching most of what came after Alexis Mac Allister’s 14th-minute strike to put Liverpool ahead, it made it hard to believe just how they have stormed so far clear of the chasing pack.
Luckily for them, performances like this are a limited-edition rarity. But that does not change the fact that this was a stinking display that gives ammunition to any outside observers doubting their credentials as the cream of the crop in England.