At the end of the storm, Trent Alexander-Arnold found his golden sky. For three weeks, he had walked alone, since announcing he would be leaving Liverpool when his contract expires this summer, but in the end the backlash gave way to something like the perfect send-off. It was, he said, the best day of his life.

Sergio Ramos famously put Mohamed Salah out of the 2018 Champions League final and while the Spaniard was chastised for the event, Trent Alexander-Arnold had a different take on the matter