MADRID -- And now, after a 2-0 win against Tottenham, it is six European Cups for Liverpool. With Barcelona and Bayern Munich left behind, ahead -- just one away -- are Milan and then 13-time winners Real Madrid, who have owned the European Cup competition like few others. No club can be separated from its past but Liverpool, more than most, are marked by what came before, from the sublime to the tragic.
The latest title mirrored those that came before in the sense that it was gutted out and filled with might-have-beens, probably many more than there should have been.