The return of the ‘Hendo shuffle’ at Wembley this year was a sight Liverpool supporters all over the world were delighted to witness again.
Only twelve months earlier, the edifices around the empire the Reds captain and his team-mates along with Jurgen Klopp and his staff had painstakingly built over previous years appeared to crumbling as a wretched run of form in the opening months of 2021 put paid to hopes of retaining the league title so memorably won the previous summer to end the club’s long 30-year championship drought.
Having scaled that metaphorical Everest, the next step for Klopp’s men may well have proved difficult in normal circumstances but the nature of behind-closed-doors pandemic football seemed to have rip the heart and soul out of a side which had clearly been designed from day one to feed off the emotional connection the Liverpool team enjoys with their passionate followers who suddenly were no longer in attendance.
