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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

Van Dijk v Rooney deserved a big helping of Anfield popcorn

Virgil van Dijk and Wayne Rooney
Awkward. Photograph: Amazon Prime

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Before Tuesday night’s entertaining Bigger Cup match at Anfield, Jack Reacher was invariably Football Daily’s go-to guy when it came to watching a giant man deliver a calmly authoritative, surgically precise and brutal takedown on an Amazon Prime TV show. But in the aftermath of Liverpool’s thoroughly deserved win over Real Madrid, it was Virgil van Dijk who strode purposefully down the touchline with vengeance and a ruthless, immediate form of vigilante justice on his mind, as he spied Wayne Rooney standing at second slip in the four-strong cordon of pundits offering their post-match thoughts to Gabby Logan.

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