Fourteen years after watching a Champions League trophy parade, Trent Alexander-Arnold was right in the middle of one.
The Liverpool full-back was an excited six-year-old cheering from the streets when the Reds returned from Istanbul clutching the European Cup in 2005, after the most dramatic of finals the previous evening.
A year ago today, Alexander-Arnold found himself on the team bus snaking through the city with Old Big Ears; himself a Champions League winner; and, he wishes, himself providing inspiration to the next generation.
“Just thinking back to when I was a kid and how that motivated me; seeing the parade always motivated me to want to achieve those things,” the No.