When Liverpool ended a 30-year wait to become champions of England in 2020, chairman Tom Werner got straight on the phone to thank the influential figures behind their success. The first text he sent, though, was not to legendary manager Jurgen Klopp. It was to Michael Edwards.
Edwards is a quiet man and, for much of his first spell on Merseyside, the only picture newspapers had of him to use alongside articles was from a Just Giving fundraising page for a charity half-marathon he was running.
But it is Edwards who is lauded in the same breath as Klopp as one of the leading godfathers of glory at Liverpool over the last decade.