The fallout regarding matters away from the field may be dominating headlines following the latest fractious, frantic meeting between Liverpool and Manchester City.
But, as ever in fixtures between the Premier League heavyweights, the reverberations from matters on the pitch in Sunday's tumultuous encounter will be felt as much as the growing ill feeling between certain sections of the two institutions.
Not, as Jurgen Klopp readily admitted before the game, concerning the scrap for the title. Liverpool are already too far adrift to be involved in that conversation this season.
