Ah, the ‘teatime kick-off’. The phrase always calls to mind some chimps, stuffed to the gills with iced buns and orange squash, attempting to assert dominance over one another in a zoological gardens. And in recent years this has certainly been the case at the Emirates. Tomorrow’s cocktail hour visitors are The Mighty Reds, the Scarlet Ponces, the Vermilion Vermin, the Crimson Crackpots, the Ruby Ruffians, Klopp’s Kloggers, call them what you will, they are known the world over as Liverpool Football Club, by some distance the greatest football team Europe, nay, the entire planet earth has ever seen. Some say that they are high on nostalgia that they hark back to historical events...
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