A mural on the end terrace wall of Anfield’s redbrick Sybil Street perhaps best encapsulates Liverpool’s image as a club of the people. It depicts Trent Alexander-Arnold beside the words: ‘I’m just a normal lad from Liverpool whose dream has just come true’.
The creation also acknowledges the work of the foodbanks Alexander-Arnold has ardently supported and it is this kind of link to the soul and the struggles of a working-class community which many Liverpool fans feel make their club different. It helps that Anfield sits at the beating heart of precisely such a place.