DREAM A LITTLE PIPE DREAM
The jig looked up for Liverpool four years ago, as they went into the second leg of their Big Cup tie with Barcelona three goals adrift. It looked for all the world like pure pipe-dream territory, but then strange things started to happen. Andy Robertson clipped Lionel Messi upside the head; Messi slipped into a funk and spent the rest of the match with a face on; Georginio Wijnaldum, brimful of righteous anger having been left out by Jürgen Klopp, came on and played the game of his life; Trent Alexander-Arnold and Divock Origi did their corner; and Anfield gently rose…
