The first whispers of the remarkable story in Madrid came at around 35,000 feet over France on Wednesday night.
With Liverpool supporters on board a delayed flight from Valencia to Manchester, having seen their team reach the final of the Champions League the night before in Villarreal, the desire to find out the identity of their opposition in Paris was tangible.
And then, somehow, ingenuity took over and a scarcely believable scoreline was shared across the Ryanair flight.
