It is a time when Liverpool supporters should be walking on sunshine, free for the first time in 35 years to openly celebrate a league title on the streets of their city.
Instead, they are in a state of open warfare which was playing out on Monday in the comments sections of almost every report featuring the so-called 'Outcast of Anfield'.
For many of those contributing to these arguments, the booing of Trent Alexander-Arnold on Sunday was an infernal act, shaming the club's mystique and destroying the idea Liverpool is somehow different. For just as many, it was a justifiable response to an act of absolute betrayal by one of their own.