Alongside reuniting with my closest family and friends, it’s something that I've counted down to since day one of the first lockdown.
Various ventures across that time have had me longing for that first matchday stroll back down Warwick Road, while I’ve had goosebumps thinking about the Reds emerging from the tunnel to a packed OT after the start to The Stone Roses' This is the One has boomed out from my earphones during a run.
We may still be waiting for the latter to become a reality during our much-anticipated Premier League opener against Leeds United on 14 August, but on Wednesday night we took another huge step towards that sense of normality in M16 again, with around 30,000 welcomed back to the Theatre of Dreams for the visit of Brentford, the highest number since before the pandemic started.