Liverpool win Premier League title
It’s time to wrap up our reaction blog, but we’ll back in the morning to see who has the worst hangover. Until then, here’s the best of our coverage on a famous day at Anfield, where Liverpool became champions of England for the 20th time.
Goodnight!
Barney Ronay on Liverpool’s title party
Even the trains north had carried a gathering excitement, like a Whitsun wedding weekend, whoops and skirls down the platform at each stopping point, the feeling of Liverpool spread out in the sun up ahead. You got to smell Anfield before you saw it, the tang of flares in the air as the crowd thickened into strolling families and tourists here just for the event glamour. At the Stanley Park end the pre‑match smoke became a genuine peasouper, the Liverpool bus appearing like an icebreaker emerging out of the mist.
