As the December temperatures threaten to plummet into the minus realm on Merseyside, the sun is beating down on the Dubai desert and Liverpool fans, unmistakably, are in town.
The ECHO is in the United Arab Emirates with a handful of supporters who have flown over from the North West for the Reds' mid-season friendlies with Lyon and AC Milan in a competition dubbed the Dubai Super Cup.
"I did a jigsaw to pass the time on my flight here," says Barry Fay, a lifelong Liverpool fan from St Helens who has been travelling home and away for decades. "It took me five hours in total."
