In many ways football can be related to wider life, in the feelings and experiences it gives to a supporter.
Like the sensation of seeing an old flame with somebody else; always sure to be a weird one and something best off avoided.
Perhaps this is the best way to describe how Liverpool fans could soon be feeling if a certain Rafa Benitez comes good on his interest in the Everton job and signs on the dotted line.
Imagine journeying back just over a decade and floating this idea to both the red and blue half of Merseyside.