The asterisk season. Jurgen Klopp said he had to look it up. What was this asterisk? How did it work? What did it mean?
Now he knows. The asterisk applies to a campaign that will not finish conventionally. It applies to Liverpool least of all the various divisional champions because their title was as good as won before lockdown.
And Klopp may be thankful for that, now. He will not have enjoyed this fan-poor, flat experience, he will not have felt comfortable without the usual sound and fury.
Klopp hates the heavy metal football tag these days, but this was something else.