Liverpool's metro mayor Steve Rotheram has accused the Government of allowing the Reds' Champions League match with Atletico Madrid to go ahead in order to pursue a 'flawed' policy of herd immunity against coronavirus.
The match has since received a huge amount of scrutiny after a huge crowd of 54,000 - with 3,000 fans arriving from Madrid - were allowed to attend the match, against the advice of the World Health Organisation.
The city of Liverpool at the time only had six confirmed cases of the virus, but as of Wednesday morning 246 people have died of coronavirus in Liverpool NHS hospitals.