Liverpool Football Club’s values and traditions need little introduction to the average British football fan – Bill Shankly, dignity in the face of tragedy, You’ll Never Walk Alone – everything the embodiment of the spirit of a proud, working-class city. If Barcelona’s “More than a club” motto applied to any English club, it would be most fitting at Anfield. Even so, it can be obviously be something of an uphill struggle to keep these values alive in the money-dominated Premier League era.
The aforementioned character of Liverpool thus ensured that the recent furloughing of staff shocked the football world more than it would at any other top-level Premier League club.