It touched you as soon as you got out of Liverpool Lime Street train station around noon. The sky was blue, but the rest of the city was red. Very red.
Captain Virgil van Dijk, an honorary artist to use his own words, had called on fans to come out in their colors. And how they reacted.
Everywhere you looked, this football-mad city was a sea of ​​red.
This day was an attack on all the senses.
The scent of pyrotechnic torches and smoke bombs stalked the sky and clung to clothing. The sound of fireworks was non-stop … bang, bang, bang.
Liverpool his Premier League champions and how they made it known. During the walk back to the city after the game, fans were everywhere. A small piece of grass was on fire and the night sky illuminated by red smoke.
They stood on top of bus stops and in one way or another managed to balance lamp poles and trees on top. They kept Pyros up, waved scarves around their heads and sat on the shoulders of friends.
These are the days that fans will never forget. These were the moments that when the children of today are old and gray, they will bore their grandchildren by banging around.
This felt like a massive outpouring of relief and ecstasy, these supporters lose control for a day and let their inner child come out. Adults were in tears, some screamed like young children.
The bus greeting in itself was an event. Thousands of fans stood along the streets to greet the team and players would really have been inspired by that.
Arne Slot himself said it was at the time that he knew that Liverpool simply would not lose.
In the stadium, the atmosphere was deafening and your eardrums sounded long in the night.
There was one episode in the first half when Andy Robertson tried to speak with Dominik Szoboszlai five meters away, but the Hungarian ignored him. Not because he was rude, but because he couldn't hear it. It was so loud.
The decibel, however, reached their highest level at 6.24 pm. This legendary stadium has seen many raw days and nights, but that moment can surpass fate when Anfield had a party that was waiting for 35 years.
Each player had his moment in the sun with the head that went through his entire songbook.
Slot got the biggest cheers of the stands and on the field, with players soaking in champagne and giving him hugs.
Every football player around the world would have viewed these scenes before, during and after the game and may have had a hint of jealousy. Liverpool confirmed this day as the place to be.
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